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Jeevika to conceive in ehmmbh?

Cinevistaas productions daily soaps of ehmmbh on star plus,is high on drama which is entertaining the audience with every twists that comes up in their storyline.

In the previous episodes of the show we had seen different avatars of jeevika a.k.a krystle in the show n also a dramatic sequence throughout.

On the upcoming episodes of the show,our sources confirmed the news saying'high voltage drama will be seen in the upcoming episodes of the show.There will be a lot of romance sequence shown in the show between virika n virman.

Furthermore, the productions house is also discussing on the upcoming track where we will also see in the coming days that jeevika will conceive which will take the show to another level adding more drama to the entire plot."

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(FM97 News / AP) — An airline passenger accused of getting out of control during an 11-hour New York-to-Hawaii flight has pleaded guilty to interfering with flight crew members and attendants — even though he says he has no memory of the incident. The Star-Advertiser reports 43-year-old Ricardo Caceres entered his plea in U.S. District Court in Honolulu on Friday. He faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison during a hearing set for September. The newspaper reports that Caceres, a native of Mexico, may also face immigration consequences. Caceres was accused of throwing water and spitting food at a flight attendant, then shoving the attendant against lavatory doors. The FBI says Caceres also bit a Federal Air Marshal deputy on the leg while authorities were trying to handcuff him.
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Oduamadi’s Coach Passes On
One of the coaches that groomed Super Eagles star, Nnamdi Oduamadi in his early days, Gabriel Ogene died at the start of the week, after a bout of illness.
Sources close to the late coach disclosed that he had been ill for a while, following what was suspected to have been a spiritual attack, which kept him out of circulation until news of his death emerged.
At the height of his activities as a grassroots coach and youth developer, the Delta State-born former player groomed the like of Oduamadi at Idowu Boys FC of Orile-Iganmu with regular training sessions at Gaskiya College, Cardoso, Ijora, Lagos.
Dramatically, the coach used to be known as Soccer Star, but changed to Idowu Boys following the equally untimely death of their founder, Coach Idowu Matti.
Other products of the club, which features annually in the Lagos State Challenge Cup include Godstime Onuador, Kelechi Duru, Riliwan Jimoh, Damilare Adegoke and the Enyashi brothers, Harrison and Chinedu.
Friends, well-wishers, players and family of the late Gabriel Ogene will gather on Thursday at Gaskiya College to deliberate on burial plans and post-humus recognition for the soft-spoken youthful late tactician.
Among esteemed personalities who made condolence messages to Ogene the family when news of Coach Gabriel’s death broke early Monday is FC Ebedie president, Barrister Churchill Oliseh, who described him as ‘a nice and hard-working man.”
In another message to the late coach’s family, Nigerian Grassroots Football Federation (NGFF) secretary-general, Oscar Ezinwa Emmanuel stated in a press release that
“On behalf of Nigerian football federation (NGFF) we write to send our condolence to the family of coach Gabriel Ogene and to the management of Soccer Stars FC, Orile-Iganmu - aka Idowu Boyz.
“We heard the shocking and sad news of his death through his facebook friends and it has been confirmed by his reliable friends and players as well.
“His was a very committed member of NGFF. Gentle, dedicated and very committed to the development of grassroots football. This he demonstrated in his various works in Idowu Boys. We will miss him,” read the message signed by Oscar, who is also president/team manager of Piston Divine Royals Football Academy, Lagos.
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Many of you know that I am deeply involved in the Susan G. Komen 3-Day For the Cure walk, and have been since 2007. Since my first walk in Boston, I've raised nearly $14,000 for the Komen Foundation. I wanted to share my thoughts on Komen canceling walks in 6 of the cities. First of all, until you have been there to witness one of these 3-day walks, you cannot imagine the amount of time, work, planning, money and volunteering that goes into these events. Each walk is a huge undertaking in making sure that each of the walkers is safe and fed and has a place to sleep and shower, etc. And they've been doing this successfully in 14 cities nationwide for many years. Each year that I've participated, I've noticed a decline in the amount of people who participate. I've also noticed how difficult it has become to fundraise, largely due to the decline in our economy. People often ask me why we have to raise so much money, why $2,300, and why we can't walk if we don't raise the money. If Komen set the goal at $2,300, and then make it optional to raise that amount, not many people would raise that amount. However, it would cost Komen the same amount per person to house and feed, etc. Less and less money would go towards education and funding research, and more of the money would go to hosting the event. So I can definitely see why Komen had to make the tough decision to cancel some events. I also believe, and fully hope, that the walkers who have participated in the event in cities that have been cancelled will still participate next year in one of the remaining events. I know I will!

Since its inception in 2003, the 3-Day walks have raised over $900 million dollars! And it's helping. Five-year survival rates for early stage cancers now average 99% (versus 74% when Komen started in 1982).

Also, I'll be sharing a fellow walker's comments about some of the incorrect and damaging comments being posted on news stories regarding where donations to Komen go. Please feel free to search other cancer charities to see how Komen measures up. Despite some bad decisions and decreased support, they have consistently maintained a 4-star rating with Charity Navigator. So if you have negative thoughts or things to say about Komen, do your research first. I sure have.
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-Alderweireld on Liverpool link: 'It strokes my ego'
The Belgium international has invited interest from abroad and revealed that although he favors a move to an established club, Champions League football is not essential.

-Suarez has been unfairly judged, says Cavani
The Napoli striker feels the Liverpool man has had a tough time in England and says he does not know if he will stay on Merseyside

-Agent: Thiago Silva staying at PSG
The Brazilian had been linked with a move to Barcelona but Paulo Tonietto says his client will be staying in France - regardless of Carlo Ancelotti's future.

-Branca: Inter keen on Barrientos and Gomez
The Serie A giant is keen to strengthen its team ahead of next season and is looking at the Catania duo for reinforcements.

-Cavani: I will discuss my future after Confederations Cup
The Napoli forward has discussed speculation about his next move and insists he is only currently focusing on upcoming matches with Uruguay.

-Dos Santos wants to continue in Spain
The Mexican winger says he would like to continue his career in Spain even after his club was relegated.

-El Shaarawy targets Milan stay amid Manchester City links
The promising forward has ruled out a summer transfer amid suggestions that he could be on the move, while Adriano Galliani has stressed the youngster is not for sale

-Neuer refuses to rule out future move abroad
The goalkeeper has insisted he is not thinking about a transfer for now, but has hinted he could be on the move at a latter stage in his career.

-Galliani hints at Milan move for Tevez
The Argentine attacker has set his sights on a summer exit and could be plying his trade in Serie A in the 2013-14 campaign

-Sneijder shocked at 'painful' Oranje captaincy loss
The former Inter playmaker is going through a difficult period as he has lost the captain's armband, while Galatasaray seems ready to cash in on him.

-Watzke: Lewandowski could leave Dortmund for another club other than Bayern
The Champions League finalist will not sell its star attacker to its domestic rival, but could still cash in on him if its valuation of the player is met

-Modric determined to remain at Real Madrid
The former Tottenham midfielder, who joined los Blancos last season, wants to establish himself at the Santiago Bernabeu, while he also praised former boss Jose Mourinho.


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I don't often make plugs on facebook - but everyone should take a moment to #voteorange (up to 25 times), so that I (and you!) can watch my Baltimore Orioles play in the All-Star game next month. Ordinarily, I vote for them mainly just because I love them, but this year, I not only love them, they are also really, really good! Already three of them are top vote getters, but we need to keep them there, and there are several more holding out in 2nd place. Help send these deserving birds to the Mid-Season Classic!

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You could verily call Joseph P. Kennedy, the father of United States President John F. Kennedy, a mobster by association, because many of his friends and associates in New York City were big-time mobsters. Joe Kennedy never actually belonged to an organized crime gang, but he was the head of the most cold-blooded gang ever — the Kennedy clan itself — a ruthless trio of men (JFK and his brother RFK included) who steamrolled over opponents, political, or otherwise, by any means necessary. It’s also true to say Joe Kennedy was a crook, because of the way he manipulated stocks, and hurt the little people in doing so. Finally, there is no doubt that Joe Kennedy was a creep: a creep of the highest order. And now I’m going to tell you why.
Joe Kennedy was born Joseph Patrick Kennedy in Boston, Massachusetts, on September 6, 1888, the son of Patrick Joseph “PJ” Kennedy and Mary Hickey. PJ Kennedy was a very popular person in the Boston community, known as a go-getter and someone who had risen from a common laborer to a successful businessman. PJ was one of the top guns who organized two separate Boston financial institutions: the Columbia Trust Company and the Sumner Savings Bank. Soon, PJ entered politics, and by the time Joe Kennedy was born, PJ was in his third term in the Massachusetts House of Representatives. But the real feather in PJ’s cap was when he was installed as the unofficial “ward boss” of the East Boston Ward 2, a position he used to his monetary advantage for more than thirty years.
Young Joe Kennedy attended Catholic school in east Boston until the 8th grade. Instead of going to a local public high school, or a local Catholic high school, PJ thought so much of his son Joe’s potential, he enrolled Joe into Boston Latin School, a college preparatory academy in the Boston Public School system. Unfortunately, although Joe had a way with numbers, his grades were far from exemplary. But Joe was a likable guy, and even though he was no “Einstein,” his fellow students voted Joe class president during his senior year.
Using his father’s pull in local politics (remember Joe’s high school grades were nothing special), in 1908 Joe was admitted into the high-brow, Ivy League, Harvard University. Joe did well enough at Harvard to earn his B.A. In 1912, immediately after Joe graduated Harvard, using his facility with numbers as a springboard, and of course, his father’s political connections, Kennedy got a prestigious job as a assistant bank examiner for the state of Massachusetts.
Joe Kennedy’s love life bloomed, while he was in his senior year at Harvard. That’s when Kennedy met the lovely Rose Fitzgerald, the daughter of Boston Mayor John F. “Honey Fitz” Fitzgerald. With both his father and her father being with the “in crowd” in Boston politics, this seemed like the perfect match. And it was, until Kennedy’s true colors came to the surface, and he began chasing every skirt in sight. But we’ll get to that later.
Joe Kennedy and Rose were married on on October 7, 1914 and they made their love cottage in the Boston suburb of Brookline. Their first son, Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., was born on July 28, 1915, and thus started a prestigious new wing of the Kennedy/Fitzgerald dynasty.
Needing to make some decent cash to support his wife and their new child in the manner they had been accustomed to, Kennedy obtained a controlling interest, with his father’s money of course, in the Columbia Trust, the bank his father had helped found. Using his father’s pull, Kennedy soon became the manger of the bank, making him, at 25, the youngest bank president in America. It was at the Columbia Trust that Kennedy realized that using his street smarts and political connections, there was nothing he couldn’t accomplish in this fine country of America.
Climbing the ladder quickly and hungrily, on May 29, 1917, Kennedy was elected to the Board of Trustees of the Massachusetts Electric Company, the same day his second child, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born. Soon afterwards, fellow Board member Guy Currier, who was a hot-shot Boston attorney, and the company counsel for Bethlehem Steel, did Kennedy a solid, when he recommended Kennedy to Bethlehem chief executive Charles M. Schwab for the position of assistant general manager at the company’s Fore River Shipyard in Quincy, Massachusetts.
Now Kennedy was on the verge of making some bigtime money and a name for himself, and he wasn’t going to let a silly thing like ethics stand in his way. This is illustrated by the following case in point.
In 1918, Kennedy joined his father-in-law’s campaign team for Honey Fitz’s attempt to win the Massachusetts Congressional seat, then occupied by fellow Democrat Peter F. Hague. This set the political back-alley-dealing groundwork for Kennedy, when he later pulled all the strings needed to make his son John the President of the United States.
Kennedy realized that the ethnic mixture in Boston was making a very subtle change. First occupied by the Anglo-Saxton “swells,”and now joined by the Boston/Irish rabble, Boston had received a recent influx of the “darkies,” which immigrants from Italy were then called, sometimes even to their faces. Kennedy knew that an Italian vote for his father-in-law was as good as a vote from the upper class, so he formulated a strategy whereby Honey Fitz would get almost the entire Italian vote. Kennedy found out who the Italian mob bosses were in all the districts, and he paid them well to bring out the vote for Honey Fitz; even if it meant stuffing a ballot box or two, or cracking a head or three. And that’s exactly what the Italian bosses did. As a result, Joe Kennedy’s father-in-law defeated Tague by a mere 238 votes.
Unfortunately, Honey Fitz’s reign did not last too long, when a year later a congressional investigation turned up the voter fraud, perpetrated behind the scenes by Joe Kennedy. The election was overturned and Honey Fitz was booted out of office, never again to hold a meaningful political position. However, Joe Kennedy himself remained unscathed. Luckily for Kennedy, Italians know how to keep their mouths shut, especially if you greased their palms sufficiently.
However, Joe Kennedy learned his lesson well, realizing the real trick was not only to tilt the election in your favor, but not to get caught doing so. Kennedy would never make this same mistake again.
Kennedy’s work at Fore River for Bethlehem Steel was exhausting until World War I ended. With business slacking off considerable, in late 1918, Kennedy decided on making an upwardly mobile move. He hooked up with Galen Stone, an associate at the Massachusetts Electric Company Board, and a partner in the brokerage firm of Hayden, Stone and Company. Under Stone’s tutelage, Kennedy learned the intricacies of the stock market. Being good with numbers, Kennedy, not only managed his clients money, but his own money as well.
When Stone retired from the firm in 1923, Kennedy, figuring he learned all he could in stock investing and the banking industry, decided to quit Hayden, Stone and Company and branch out on his own. He called his new company “Joseph P. Kennedy, Banker.” In just three short years, using the precepts he had learned at Hayden, Stone and Company, Kennedy’s net worth had ballooned to over 2 million dollars.
Well, not exactly.
In 1919, the Volstead Act, which prohibited the production, sale, and transport of “intoxicating liquors,” made a lot of crooks rich. One of them was Joseph P. Kennedy. In 1922, flush with cash in his pocket as a result of his manipulations on Wall Street, Kennedy decided to branch out into the business of “rum running,” which was the illegal transport of alcohol from outside the United States.
People have said that Kennedy was a “bootlegger,” but by definition that was not accurate. Bootleggers produced the alcohol, sometimes in bathtubs, hence the term “bathtub gin.” “Rum runners” like Kennedy found the best places outside America to buy the product, then they purchased ships, speedboats, trucks and warehouses, in order to move the stuff into American, then distribute the booze to whomever needed it.
In his first foray into the rum running business, Kennedy discovered a great source of top-flight Scotch on St. Pierre and Muldoon, a group of eight islands approximately sixteen miles off the coast of Newfoundland. There, Kennedy was able to purchase Scotch for $45 a case. Using his head for numbers, Kennedy calculated that shipping and labor cost added about another $20 per case; making it a total of $65. Since Kennedy told the scotch for $85 a case, that was not much of a profit margin for so dangerous an operation. So Kennedy copied what other rum runners had done. He cut the 90 proof scotch with water and other additives. Then Kennedy re-bottled the Scotch, which transformed an $85 case of 90 proof Scotch into two cases of 45 proof scotch, which Kennedy then sold at $85 per case. Using this chicanery, Kennedy turned the usual 5000-case shipment, which cost him $325,000, into a tidy profit of $200,000 per shipment: a King’s ransom in the Roaring 20′s.
Being involved in the illegal rum running business also meant that Kennedy had to play ball with some tough customers, who were doing the same thing that Joseph P. Kennedy was doing. This is where Joe Kennedy, even though he was born and raised in Boston, became a New York City gangster by association.
One of the men Kennedy had to deal with, almost on a daily basis, was Owney “The Killer” Maddon, who was partners with Big Bill Dwyer, called “The King of the Rum Runners.” By partnering up with Maddon and Dwyer, Kennedy now had a New York City distributor for his Scotch, through several night clubs Maddon and Dwyer owned, including the Stork Club and the El Fay Club in Midtown Manhattan, and the famous Cotton Club in Harlem.
In 1924, Kennedy moved his brood of seven children, from Boston to the New York City suburb of Riverdale, where Kennedy kept a close eye on his two main money-makers: Wall Street, and the New York City distribution network of his illegal rum running operation. During this period of time, Kennedy also hooked up with known Mafia hoodlum Johnny Roselli, who introduced Kennedy to Kennedy’s new rum running partner in the midwest: one Alphonse “Scarface” Capone.
By 1927, Kennedy was so flush with cash, he decided to make his move out west and get involved with the movie-making business in Hollywood, California. His entry into Hollywood was greased by Roselli, who through fear and intimidation, had basically the entire Hollywood cast of characters under his control.
Soon, Kennedy became the boss of the Film Booking Company (FBO). Kennedy also created the Cinema Credits Corporation, which he used as a conduit to pull in money from his financial cronies up north to invest in the grand schemes abounding in Hollywood. But Kennedy, wily stock manipulator that he was from his experience up north, made his first big Hollywood “killing” when he was hired as an advisors to Pathe’, a highly profitable newsreel company that had been around since Thomas Edison invented his Vitascope projector.
Having access to the full scope of Pathe’s finances, Kennedy bought in at $30 a share. When Pathe’ was sold, Kennedy arranged to have himself paid $80 a share, while the average Pathe’ investor only took in a buck fifty a share. This type of stock manipulation is punishable by imprisonment today, but back then, it was just a way of “doing business” that Kennedy had mastered up north. Lawsuits flew around, but Kennedy had stacked the deck in his favor, and nothing ever came of the lawsuits.
In researching her book The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys: An American Saga; author Doris Kearns Goodwin uncovered old lost letters written by one of the Pathe’ investors, Ann Lawler, who ironically came from Kennedy’s home town of Boston. Apparently, through Kennedy’s manipulation of Pathe’ stock, Lawler had lost her entire life savings. Lawler wrote to Kennedy, “This seems hardly Christian-like, fair, or just for a man of your character. I wish you would think of the poor working women who had so much faith in you as to give their money to your Pathe’”
Old Joe Kennedy must have had a good laugh over that one.
While in Hollywood, and still married to Rose, Kennedy engaged in the same extra-marital activities that his son Jack the President would engage in a generation later. Joe Kennedy’s affair with actress Gloria Swanson was an open secret, known by everyone in Hollywood, including members of the press, whom Kennedy paid to keep the news out of the tabloids.
Old Joe even bedded down showgirl Evelyn Crowell, the window of dearly-departed Larry Fey, who was Owney Madden’s partner in the popular El Fey nightclub, which featured showgirl Tex Guinan as the main attraction. Fey was also part owner of the Casa Blanca nightclub, a midtown hotspot. On January 1, 1933, Fey was shot to death, shortly after the bells rang bringing in the New Year, by the Casa Blanca doorman, whom Fey had just informed that his pay was being cut. With the unfortunate Fey’s marital bed still warm, Joe Kennedy jumped into it with widow Crowdell – the late Larry Fey and Rose Kennedy be damned.
Kennedy knew his power in Hollywood would be limited, unless he owned his own movie distributing company to distribute the movies (mostly mediocre) that he was making. In 1929, Kennedy, now part owner of RKO movies, set his eyes on the Pantages Theatre chain, owned by Pericles “Alexander” Pantages, a Greek immigrant and a self-made man. Kennedy, along with his partner David Sarnoff, approached Pantages and offered to buy him out. However, Pantages turned them down flat, which did not make Joe Kennedy too happy.
What happened next is open to conjecture, but has been reported in several publications, including the best selling book Hollywood Babylon, to be the gospel truth.
According to reports, Kennedy employed the services of one Eunice Pringle, a 17-year old vaudeville dancer who wanted desperately to be a Hollywood movie star. On August 9, 1929, Pringle showed up unexpectedly at the offices of Pantages, inside his theater on South Hill Street in downtown Los Angeles.
Soon after she arrived at Pantages office, Pringle ran into the lobby of the theater, her clothes torn to shreds. She started screaming and pointing at Pantages, who was following her. “There he is – the beast!” Pringle said. “Don’t let him get at me!”
When the police arrived, Pringle insisted that Pantages had tried to rape her in a broom closet in his office.
Pantages confusion turned into anger. He told the police, “It’s a lie. She raped herself.”
Pantages’ rape trial turned Hollywood, ever seeking the sensational, into a cauldron of hate: hate for Alexander Pantages. The Herald-Examiner wrote that Pringle was “the sweetest seventeen since Clara Bow.”
On the witness stand, Pantages tearfully denied what Pringle said had ever happened, but the dies of public opinion had already been cast against him. Pantages was found “guilty as charged,” and sentenced to 50 years in prison.
Luckily for Pantages, he was a very wealthy man, and he appealed the verdict. At his first trail, a group of private investigators, whom Pantages had hired, uncovered evidence that Pringle was little more than a base prostitute. But for some reason, the judge (probably an avid reader of the Herald-Examiner) decided that this evidence was not admissible.
For Pantages’ second trial, Pantages hired attorney Jerry Geisler, later Hollywood’s leading divorce attorney, and San Francisco lawyer Jake Ehrlich. Geisler was able to convince the second judge that Pringle’s previous moral behavior was indeed significant to his client’s case. The second judge agreed, and allowed the private investigator’s finding to be admitted into evidence.
Geisler then argued that it was impractical for Pantages to try to rape Pringle in a tiny broom closet, when he had a large office, with a comfortable couch, to do the deed, if that was his bent. Geisler was successful in planting in the jury’s mind that Pringle was paid by business rivals of Pantages to set him up as a rapist.
At his second trial, Pantages was found “not guilty” by the jury, but he was a broken man in more ways than one. Pantages’ legal expenses were astronomical, and his business, because of the bad publicity he had received during two trials, was damaged significantly.
In 1931, Pantages refused Kennedy’s offer of $8 million for his businesses. But after months of operating in the red, Pantages finally relented. Only now, Kennedy paid Pantages less than $4 million, much less money than it had cost Pantages to build his “Greek Theatre” empire chain. Mentally beaten into submission, Pantages relented and gave away his theater chain to Kennedy for a fraction of what it was worth. Pantages went into reluctant early retirement, and by 1936, he was dead at the age of 60.
This story does not end here.
In 1933, Pringle approached a lawyer and told the lawyer that her story about Pantages raping her was a lie. She said she wanted to come clean and start naming names. Within days, Pringle was dead, and cyanide poisoning was the alleged cause of her death.
According to Pringle’s mother, with her last dying breath, Eunice Pringle had told her that she, through her agent, had been paid $10,000, and promised by RKO studio head Joe Kennedy, that he would make her a famous movie star, if she set up Pantages.
So in addition to being a downright creep throughout his life, was Joe Kennedy an accessory to murder too? No one will ever know for sure.
Right after he purchased the Pantages movie chain, Joe Kennedy was given an offer he couldn’t refuse. In the winter of 1931, New York Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was allegedly in the pocket of Kennedy’s rum-running partners in New York City, namely Owney Madden and Frank Costello, enticed Kennedy with a job to basically be his bag man for campaign contributions for his run for the Presidency. With Kennedy’s connections to the underworld, he was able to funnel illegal cash contributions from the mob into FDR’s Presidential campaign coffers – reportedly totaling $200,000. As a reward for services rendered, when FDR was elected President, he gave Kennedy the plum position of chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, which is like putting the fox in charge of the hen house.
With his access to information inside the Roosevelt administration, Kennedy was able to find out in advance that the fix was in for the repeal of Prohibition. Knowing his pals Madden and Costello were already making a smooth transition to other illegal activities, including gambling and prostitution, Kennedy decided to go completely straight. No more illegal shenanigans.
Well, almost.
In early 1933, Kennedy took a trip to Europe with FDR’s son James Roosevelt. With Kennedy’s pull in the new administration, Kennedy was able to obtain the rights to be the United States representative for Haig & Haig Ltd., John Dewar and Sons, Ltd. and Gordon’s Dry Gin Company Ltd. Kennedy began buying loads of this top-shelf liquor for himself, and he stored them in warehouses near the Canadian boarder. If anyone asked, Kennedy told them this liquor was being stored for “medicinal purposes.”
Yeah, right.
On December 5, 1933, when Prohibition was repealed by the 21st amendment, Kennedy, through his new company, Somerset Importers, went from millionaire rum runner to the being the largest single distributor of Scotch in the United States of America. And now it was all legal.
Riding the coattails of FDR, Kennedy served Roosevelt’s administration in many capacities, culminating in 1938 with his appointment as Ambassador to the United Kingdom. Kennedy moved his wife and his brood, which now numbered nine kids, to England. Yet this was the job, despite Kennedy’s initial popularity in England, that would eventually end all political aspirations that Joe Kennedy had for himself.
Quite simply, Kennedy was a disaster as Ambassador to the United Kingdom. Concerning Hitler and Germany’s impending treat to world peace, Kennedy was an appeaser, basically telling the British that Hitler was not such a big problem, and if he was a problem, Hitler was their problem, and no concern of the United States of America. Joe Kennedy’s recommendation to FDR was that the United States not involve itself in Europe’s difficulties.
In August 1940, after Hitler had already conquered Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Luxembourg, Holland and France, he turned his sights on Great Britain. And thus the Battle of Britain began, with air strikes from the Germans almost an everyday occurrence on the streets of Great Britain. In November 1940, Kennedy, with egg smeared all over his face, resigned as Ambassador to the United Kingdom. Joe Kennedy was ruined in politics and he knew it. So Joe Kennedy decided to do the next best thing: propel one of his sons to the Presidency of the United States of America.
Papa Kennedy’s first choice was his son Joe Jr. But on August 12th, 1944, Naval Aviator Joseph Kennedy Jr. was killed, when his plane vaporized during a flight mission over southeast England.
Plan B for Papa Kennedy was his second oldest son John Fitzgerald Kennedy (JFK), who had already been declared a war hero in August of 1943, when he escaped death and helped save the lives of his men, when the torpedo boat he commanded, PT 109, was sunk by a Japanese destroyer.
When the war ended, Papa Kennedy went right to work on establishing John’s career. His first move was to get his son elected to congressman of the 8th District in Massachusetts. The only problem was, the present congressman, Democrat James Michael Curley, the former three-time Mayor of Boston, had every intention of running for congress again.
But money talks, and Joe Kennedy had plenty of dough.
Papa Joe knew Curley has cash flow problems, so he convinced Curley that he should step down as congressman and run for Mayor of Boston, again. Curley protested, saying he had to money to properly run a mayoral campaign. Papa Joe said, “No problem.” And he gave Curley a reported $100,000 to run for Mayor and he even paid the salary of Curley’s campaign manager. The end result was, Curley was elected Mayor of Boston for the 4th time, and in 1946, John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress.
JFK served in Congress for eight years, and in 1954 Papa Joe thought it was time to implement step number two in his son’s quest for the Presidency. With his father’s monetary backing, JFK was elected U.S. Senator from the state of Massachusetts. In 1956, JFK made a run at the Democratic nomination for President, but was beaten back by wily veteran Adlai Stevenson. This turned out to be a good thing for JFK, since incumbent President Dwight “Ike” Eisenhower was popular with the people. Ike won his re-election over Stevenson in a landslide (59.4% to 42%). JFK was certain to have suffered the same fate as Stevenson did at this early point in JFK’s career
Everything was going fine for Papa Joe as far as JFK was concerned, but his third oldest son Robert “Bobby”Kennedy was also making a name for himself, and not in a way that pleased Papa Joe.
In February of 1957, Bobby Kennedy (RFK) was appointed the chief counsel for the McClellan Hearings into organized crime. The problem was, the people that brash Bobby was trying to put in jail were the same men Papa Joe had worked hand-in-hand with for the past 30-something years. Men like Sam Giancana from Chicago and Carlos Marcello from New Orleans were tight with Papa Joe, and they were aghast and more than a little puzzled, as to why Joe’s son Bobby was pursuing them so relentlessly.
Papa Joe told his son Bobby to lay off on his old pals, but Bobby, snarky and headstrong, would have none of that. Papa Joe knew needed men like Giancana and Marcello to “influence” the next Presidential election at the polls, if JFK had any chance of being elected.
In 1960, through actor/singer Frank Sinatra, who was friends with JFK’s brother-in-law Peter Lawford, Papa Joe reached out to old friend John Roselli, who in turn set up a clandestine meeting with Giancana, who basically ran the city of Chicago, if not the entire state of Illinois. By this time, JFK was running for the Democratic Nomination for President, and if he got the nomination, his opponent would certainly be Richard Nixon, Eisenhower’s vice president for the past eight years. Papa Joe did his market research, and he knew it was imperative for JFK to win the West Virginia Primary Election to get the Democratic nomination. And then win the state of Illinois in the general election, if JFK ever got that far.
In early 1960, Papa Joe met with Roselli, Sinatra and Giancana several times, mostly at secret meetings at the Cal-Neva Lodge, where Sinatra was a part owner, and Giancana a secret owner, most likely through Sinatra. The deal Papa Joe was pitching was basically this, “You help my son get elected, and my son and his administration will leave you guys alone, after he is elected President of the United States.”
Even though Giancana had been publicly humiliated by Bobby Kennedy at the McClellan hearings. (During a tough cross examination, when Giancana seemed to snicker at Bobby Kennedy’s line of questioning, Bobby snarled at Giancana and said, “Mr. Giancana, I thought only little girls giggled.”) the lure of having the President of the United States in his back pocket was too good for Giancana to turn down. As a result, Giancana hopped on the “Kennedy For President” bandwagon. However, Carlos Marcello, on the other hand, hated the Kennedys and absolutely refused to back Joe Kennedy’s son. Marcello reportedly even gave a hidden $500,000 in cash to Nixon’s campaign coffers.
The first order of business was the West Virgina Primary, which was set to take place on May 10, 1960. Giancana and Sinatra immediately went to work, enlisting the aid of Sinatra’s old pal Paul “Skinny” D’Amato from New Jersey. In 1959, Sinatra had a big hit with the song “High Hopes,” from his new movie “A Hole in the Head.” Through JFK’s friendship with Sinatra, “High Hopes” became JFK’s campaign song. And as if by magic, as the West Virginia Primary neared, “High Hopes” was played incessantly on all the West Virginia juke boxes, radio stations, and television stations..
For his part, Giancana went into full fund-raising mode. Giancana passed the hat to all his mob cronies for money to be used for whatever needed to be done to ”influence” West Virgina Democrats to vote for JFK. With D’Amato as the intermediary, money was given to everyone and anyone in West Virgina, who was influential in getting the Democratic voters out to the polls. Some of the money was given in straight cash, and some in the form of desks, chairs, and office supplies to Democratic politicians, with enough votes up their sleeves to guarantee a JFK Primary win. The end result was that Kennedy won the West Virginia Primary over Herbert Humphrey by winning 60% of the vote, and was now headed straight to the Presidential Elections.
Papa Joe Kennedy knew that winning the state of Illinois was crucial for his son to triumph over Nixon in the Presidential election. This is where Sam Giancana came in very handy indeed.
In late summer of 1960, Papa Joe used his friendship with Chicago Mayor Richard Daley to set up three meetings with himself, Daley, and Giancana, which took place at the Ambassador East Hotel in downtown Chicago. At these meeting, the three men discussed the strategy they would employ to guarantee the vote for JFK on Election Day.
Daley had his own election apparatus in place, where he was able to cajole, and use force when necessary, to make sure people in Chicago voted the way Daley said they should vote. In addition, Giancana used his muscle to do the same thing in the suburbs outside Chicago, especially in Cook County, where Kennedy had a victory margin of 450,000 votes—more than 10% of Chicago’s 1960 population of 3.55 million. Even with this landslide for Kennedy in and around Chicago, he won the state’s electoral votes by a mere .19 percent. What made Kennedy’s victory in Illinois so amazing was that Nixon won 92 out of the states 101 counties, but lost by such a large margin in the counties controlled by Daley and Giancana, that it didn’t make a difference.
Winning the state of Illinois’ electoral votes gave JFK the Presidential election over Nixon. In the popular vote throughout the country, JFK beat Nixon by less than 9000 votes, or 0.1 percent of the 4.75 million votes cast. So it’s safe to say, without Giancana and Daley’s help, JFK would not have been elected the President of the United States of America.
What happened next is detailed in the book “Double Cross,” written by Giancana’s nephew and brother Sam and Chuck Giancana. The first indication that Joe Kennedy had screwed Giancana and his pals was when JFK inexplicably named his brother Bobby the Attorney General of the United States (The laws were changed later so that no President could ever appoint a relative to a high position in his government). This made RFK the boss of the best ally organized crime and the Mafia ever had in America: the head of the FBI – J. Edgar Hoover.
For years Hoover did as little as possible to pursue Mafia figures, and for a long time he even denied the existence of the Mafia. Mafia boss Frank Costello claimed he got on Hoover’s good side over the years years by relaying information, through gossip columnist Walter Winchell, about fixed horse races throughout the country. Hoover bet heavy on these horse races and made himself quite a bundle of cash. And through Costello’s brilliance, none of it was traceable to the Mafia.
But Hoover was now powerless to do anything to help his Mafia associates. Bobby Kennedy came down hard and quick on the very men who put his brother and himself in power, and he did it with Papa Joe Kennedy’s blessing. Papa Joe probably thought by going after and arresting his old pals, it would put them out of commission, and unable to do anything about it. That turned out to be the biggest miscalculation Joesph P. Kennedy ever made. And it cost him his two son’s lives.
RFK went on an dedicated mission to destroyed the Mafia and organized crime in America, even though these were the same people his father had rubbed elbows with, and made money with, for almost 40 years. RFK instituted hundreds of wiretaps of Mob figures, including those on the homes and hangouts of Johnny Roselli and Sam Giancana. RFK even had Carlos Marcello snatched off the streets of New Orleans and immediately deported to Guatemala. Marcello, mad as hell, snuck back into the United States and had his attorney’s file suit against RFK. But to no avail.
The Italian mob bosses put in a call to Frank Sinatra, and they ordered Sinatra to contact RFK immediately and tell Bobby all this nonsense had to stop immediately. Sinatra did as he was told, but that only made RFK more steadfast in his mission. At this point, certain mob bosses said Sinatra should be “hit,” as a message to RFK that they were not fooling around. However, it was Giancana himself who squelched the Sinatra “hit.” Giancana told those who wanted to whack Sinatra, “Leave Frank alone. I like the way he sings ‘Chicago, My Kind of Town’.”
RFK’s wiretaps picked up communications through the country that showed how much the Mafia was angry at his double cross. Carlos Marcello was so enraged, he told an associate concerning RFK, “Don’t worry about that little Bobby son-of-a-bitch! He’s going to be taken care of.”
Giancana, who lost the most face of all the Mafia bosses, because of how he acceded to every Joe Kennedy wish, was heard saying, “I never thought it would get this fucking rough. When they put the brother in there, we were going to see some fireworks, but I never knew it would be like this. This is murder.”
On Dec. 19, 1961, less than a year after JFK was elected President, Joseph P. Kennedy suffered a stroke that paralyzed the right side of his body and left him barely able to communicate, although people close to him said his intellect was unimpaired. At this point, even if he wanted to stop his son Bobby from trying to decimate organized crime, he was not capable of doing so.
Joseph P. Kennedy was alive to see and hear about the assassinations of his two sons; first JFK, in 1963, in Dallas, Texas, and then RFK, in 1968, in Los Angeles, California. There is very little doubt that both killings were aided and abetted by the very men whom Joe Kennedy and his brood had turned their backs on. Stooges like Lee Harvey Oswald and Sirhan Sirhan were the faces of the two killings, but it is doubtful either man actually fired the killing shots.
Basically in a catatonic state from the day his was stricken, there is some doubt as to whether Joe Kennedy was fully aware of the killings of his two sons. Some reports said he sat impassive both times, showing absolutely no emotion. Others close to the family said that when he was told of the murder of his son, the President, a small teardrop trickled down the side of his face.
On November 18, 1969, Joseph P. Kennedy died in his Hyannis Port, Massachusetts home, at the age of 81. Neither of his murdered sons reached the age of 47. (JFK was 46, and RFK was 43, respectively, when they were killed.)
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Charlie records 2 tracks for 'Rhythm & Punk Review' album

On 30 May 2013, Charlie laid down two vocal tracks for an album project jointly partnered by Chris Constantinou and Paul Frazer. Together, under the name THE MUTANTS they are making an all star Punk/Ska Album called 'Rhythm and Punk Review' which features different singers / guest musicians from the late 70s Punk and Ska scene. Rat Scabies has played all the drums for the album and singers already involved on the album include Knox and Beki Bondage. More Guests and live shows will be announced in due course with the album due out next year.
Full news story, with more info and photos on the link folks...
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I saw on the news yesterday that a group is trying to get a star on the Walk of Fame for Joe Besser, who was from St. Louis. I hope that gets done. I know he wasn't Curly or Shemp, but I think Joe had some very funny moments as a member of the Three Stooges. Remember, "Not so hard"?
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Il fantastico mondo segreto di Gorongosa, nell’altipiano del Mozambico

[10 giugno 2013]

Il pipistrello “Chewbecca”, una rana cavernicola, coleooteri bombardier (coleotteri che per difendersi emettono “flatulenze esplosive” ), un minuscolo elefante toporagno elefante, insetti affascinanti e terribili… sono tra le centinaia di specie che ha documentato in un mese una spedizione scientifica nel Parque Nacional da Gorongona, devastato da 17 anni di guerra civile (dal 1975 – 1992) tra il Frelimo e la Renamo. All’indomani del conflitto che vide vincitori gli allora marxisti-leninisti del Frelimo, il parco, utilizzato con me base dalle milizie di destra filo-occidentali della Renamo, aveva perso il 95% delle sue popolazioni di grandi mammiferi. Dopo il 1995, con la cacciata dei guerriglieri che uccidevano tutto quel che c’era di commestibile e con la ripresa delle attività di salvaguardia, la fauna selvatica di Gorongosa ha recuperato rapidamente. Nel 2010, il governo del Mozambico ha ampliato l’area protetta e ha aggiunto una zona cuscinetto.

Secondo il team internazionale di 15 scienziati, guidato dall’entomologo, fotografo e scrittore Piotr Naskrecki, che tra aprile e maggio ha condotto un inventario di piante e animali sul Plateau Cheringoma ,nella parte orientale di Gorongosa, «I risultati suggeriscono che la biodiversità nel Nazionale Gorongosa, nel Mozambico centrale, è sulla buona strada verso la ripresa, per l’apertura di un nuovo capitolo per l’area protetta di 4.000 chilometri quadrati».

I ricercatori, che si sono arrampicati fino alle cime degli alti alberi delle foreste, hanno utilizzato diversi metodi per catalogare una biodiversità che si rivelata vertiginosamente varia, stana, affascinante ed “inedita”: trappole a caduta, reti invisibili, trappole ai feromoni, telecamere remote e rilevatori sonori ultrasonici, ed ha documentato piante, mammiferi, uccelli, rettili, anfibi, coleotteri, formiche, cavallette, katydids e mantidi religiose,. Nel complesso la spedizione ha trovato nel Plateau Cheringoma più di 1.200 specie di animali e piante, tra le quali decine di specie mai documentate prima dalla scienza.

Tra gli animali più insoliti i ricercatori citano il pipistrello Chewbecca (Triaenops persicus), chiamato così per la sua somiglianza con il personaggio di Star Wars. Poi ci sono le sole formiche (Melissotarus emeryi), fino ad ora conosciute al mondo incapaci di camminare su superfici piane, che trascorrono la loro vita in profonde spaccature nel legno degli alberi, dove si spostano con le loro corte gambe che possono articolare sia di sopra che di sotto il corpo.

Un altro bel tipo è il coleottero bombardiere Carapterus lacera che si difende con esplosioni di sostanze chimiche nocive altamente reattive emesse rumorosamente dal suo addome.

Un altro insetto che utilizza armi chimiche e la è la cavalletta “schiuma” (Dictyophorus griseus), un insetto il cui corpo contiene composti altamente tossici in grado di uccidere qualsiasi predatore abbastanza stupido da mangiarlo.

Ma anche l’incredibile varietà di anfibi presenti nel Garongosa ha impressionato i ricercatori che hanno documentato 33 specie di rane, più che triplicando il numero di specie conosciute nel parco. Alcuni anfibi raccolti da Mark-Oliver (Mo) Roedel, il notissimo erpetologo che ha partecipato alla spedizione in Mozambico, sono probabilmente nuove per la scienza, come la splendida Kassina nero-rgento che vive nelle profonde grotte calcaree di Gorongosa. Secondo Roedel, anche alcuni Hyperolius possono essere “nuovi”, come un interessante Leptopelis dai grandi occhi. «Ognuno di loro e potenzialmente endemico – dice Naskrecki – e quindi un argomento forte per mantenere lo status di protezione di Gorongosa»..

Questa area protetta rimasta isolata, oltre alle foreste tropicali dell’altopiano calcareo del Plateau Cheringoma, ospita una varietà di altri ecosistemi, compresi zone umide stagionali, boschi, foreste secche, foreste montane, e savane che ospitano più di 500 specie di uccelli. Come scrive News Watch di National Geographic «Non ci poteva essere un ambiente più avventuroso per questa spedizione che le pareti calcaree a strapiombo, costellata di grotte profonde e cascate che precipitano verso la lussureggiante foresta fluviale e i torrenti impetuosi delle gole sottostanti».

Il bilancio finale di un mese di ricerche, comprende 182 specie di uccelli, 47 di rettili, 33 di rane, 54 di mammiferi, 100 di formiche e 320 di piante, i dati raccolti durante la spedizione sono andati a rimpinguare la banca dati della biodiversità del Wilson Biodiversity Laboratory di Gorongosa, una moderna struttura di ricerca dedicata alla memoria dell’entomologo statunitense Edward O. Wilson che si aprirà presto nel Parque Nacional da Gorongon e che consentirà e di gestire e proteggere le sue risorse naturali.

Naskrecki è sia eccitatissimo per quanto è stato scoperto che molto preoccupato, perché, come scrive sul suo blog, «Durante una visita al ministero del turismo a Maputo ho appreso di un terrificante possibilità di una riclassificazione (degazetting) di alcuni dei parchi nazionali del Mozambico per consentire che lo sviluppo industriale, per lo più l’estrazione mineraria, prenda posto all’interno dei loro confini. Tale declassamento viene giustificato dalla nozione di apparentemente bassa biodiversità queste aree, risultato sia della guerra civile che del successivo bracconaggio e del disboscamento illegale.

Senza entrare nella politica di tali decisioni potenzialmente disastrose, sono convinto che la nostra ricerca ed ognuna delle specie sono stati documentate dimostrano che i parchi nazionali in Mozambico sono pieni di vita, spesso un rifugio per organismi che non si possono trovare in nessun altro luogo. Ogni nome di un’orchidea, di un topo o di una rana che possiamo aggiungere alla lista delle specie che vivono in un parco nazionale avvalora la tesi che dobbiamo proteggere queste aree a tutti i costi. Per fortuna, il Gorongosa non è sotto alcuna minaccia di essere riclassificato, ma gli altri, i parchi meno sviluppati lo possono essere. Dopo aver sentito della nostra ricerca, nel Cheringoma, il capo del Dipartimento dei parchi e riserve Nazionali subito visto il suo incredibile valore e ci ha esortato a farle in tutti i parchi nazionali in Mozambico».
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Problems and criticism

Need-to-know (like other security measures) can be misused by persons who wish to refuse others access to information they hold in an attempt to increase their personal power, prevent unwelcome review of their work, prevent embarrassment resulting from actions or thoughts, or to cover up illegal actions.
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The term is also used in the concept of graphical user interface design where computers are controlling complex equipment such as airplanes. In this usage, when many different pieces of data are dynamically competing for finite User interface space, safety-related messages are given priority.
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Anish Giri
Anish Giri.jpg
Giri in May 2009 at age 14
Country Netherlands
Born June 28, 1994 (age 18)
Saint Petersburg, Russia
Title Grandmaster
FIDE rating 2734 (June 2013)
(No. 31 in the January 2013 FIDE World Rankings)
Peak rating 2732 (31 July 2012)

Anish Giri (born June 28, 1994)[1] is a chess prodigy. He met his final grandmaster norm at the age of 14 years, 7 months and 2 days when he beat Venezuelan GM Eduardo Iturrizaga in the C Group of the 2009 Corus Chess Tournament in Wijk aan Zee in the Netherlands.[2]
Contents

1 Family
2 Chess career
2.1 Major events and achievements
3 Schooling
4 Other interests and skills
5 References
6 External links

Family

Anish is the son of a Nepalese father (Sanjay Giri),[2] and a Russian mother (Olga Giri).[3] Anish was born in St. Petersburg, Russia on 28 June 1994.[1] In 2002, he moved to Japan with his parents. Since then he had been residing in Japan, and visiting St. Petersburg regularly. Since February 2008, Anish and his family have been living in the Netherlands, in the Dutch city of Rijswijk where his father is working in a research and consulting foundation (Deltares). He has two sisters, Natasha and Ayusha.
Chess career

Anish's first club was a local youth sport club 'DYUSH-2' in St. Petersburg, Russia. His trainers in this club were Asya Kovalyova and Andrei Praslov. He was a member of the Japan Chess Association and the Sapporo Chess Club during his stay in Japan. He became Russian champion (U12) while he was living in Yugoslavia.

Anish has been playing for SK Turm Emsdetten since 2008 in the German Chess Bundesliga (the premier league of team chess in Germany). He is the youngest ever player in the history of this league. Furthermore, he is affiliated with several Dutch chess clubs, including the HSG (Hilversum Chess Society) and the Delftsche SchaakClub (Delft Chess Club). He plays in the French league (TOP-16) for l'Echiquier Châlonnais.

He does not have intensive chess training facilities, mostly working by himself using chess programs and books at his leisure. Now the KNSB (Dutch Chess Federation) is providing him facilities for some training sessions with Federation coach Vladimir Chuchelov.
Major events and achievements

In September 2009 he won at Haaksbergen the closed Dutch Championship, making him the youngest player to win this championship to date.
In January 2010, aged 15, he competed in the Corus Chess Tournament in Wijk aan Zee winning the B-group.[3]
In May 2010 it was revealed that Giri had aided Viswanathan Anand in preparation for the World Chess Championship 2010 against challenger Veselin Topalov. Anand won the match 6.5-5.5 to retain the title.[4][5]
At the end of May 2010, Giri convincingly won the 18th annual Sigeman & Co. Tournament with a performance rating of 2936.[6]
In August 2010, he was one of the best scorers for the Rising Stars team during the NH tournament against the Experienced team, but was unable to qualify for the Amber tournament, losing in tiebreak against Nakamura.[7]
In October 2010, Giri won bronze at the 2010 Chess Olympiad at Khanty-Mansiysk, during his first Olympiad appearance. Giri had a performance rating of 2730, playing board 4 for the Dutch team.
In January 2011, Giri beat world number one Magnus Carlsen (Elo 2814) with Black in 22 moves at the Wijk Aan Zee chess tournament (category 20).
In January 2012, Giri won the 54th annual Reggio Emilia chess tournament. Despite being the lowest rated player in a category 20 tournament (average rating 2744), Giri scored four wins, two losses and four draws for a clear first place (performance rating of 2823).

Schooling

Giri is currently studying at the Grotius College in Delft. Unlike most other prodigies, he is a regular high school student following classes every day, save for some limited absences allowed by the school during major tournaments and events. Thus, playing chess is still a part-time activity for Giri. His favorite subjects include physics, mathematics, geography and history.
Other interests and skills

Giri speaks Russian, English, Dutch, Japanese and a little bit of Nepalese. In school, he studies German as well. He likes to play football and table tennis.

Recently[when?] Giri contracted a new interest—writing articles and annotating top games. He annotated a number of top games for the popular chess site ChessBase,[8] and has written several articles, including analyses of his own games for chess magazines, such as New in Chess, 64 (chess magazine), and Schach Magazin 64. Since May 2011 he is a columnist for the magazine ChessVibes Training.
References

^ a b "Anish Giri, 14, makes his final GM norm". Chessbase.com. 2009-01-31. Archived from the original on 3 February 2009. Retrieved 2009-02-06.
^ a b "NRN boy youngest grandmaster". MyRepublica.com. 2009-02-01. Archived from the original on 5 February 2009. Retrieved 2009-02-06.
^ a b "Promise of greatness in Dutch chess prodigy". Nrc.nl. 2010-01-15. Retrieved 2012-12-14.
^ "Anand in Playchess – the helpers in Sofia". Chessbase. 2010-05-19. Archived from the original on 22 May 2010. Retrieved 2010-05-19.
^ "Carlsen, Giri, Kasparov and Kramnik all helped Anand". Chessvibes. 2010-05-20. Archived from the original on 23 May 2010. Retrieved 2010-05-20.
^ "Sigeman: Giri wins with 4.5/5 and a 2936 performance". ChessBase. 2010-05-31. Archived from the original on 3 June 2010. Retrieved 31 May 2010.
^ "NH Chess Tournament 2010". The Week in Chess. 2011-08-22. Retrieved 2011-10-18.
^ "Sofia World Championship: Giri on game twelve". ChessBase. 2010-05-11. Archived from the original on 14 May 2010. Retrieved 2010-05-11.

External links
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Anish Giri player profile and games at Chessgames.com
Anish Giri player profile at the Internet Chess Club
Official website

Articles/Interviews

http://blip.tv/file/4010660
http://blip.tv/file/4010601
http://blip.tv/file/4026453
http://www.onlinechesslessons.net/2011/07/27/anish-giri-chess-interview/
http://www.mefeedia.com/entry/a-rising-star/22462961
http://www.magnuscarlsenchess.com/rating_giri_carlsen_comparison.php
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6TKCAPlPvM
http://www.sovsport.ru/news/text-item/411292
http://www.chesspro.ru/_events/2010/amsterdam1.html
http://weblogs.vpro.nl/hollandsport/2009/09/18/holland-sport-21-september/
http://chessheroes.blogspot.com/2010/02/anish-giri-and-mikahil-botvinnik.html
http://www.chessvibes.com/reports/anish-giri-every-opponent-was-strong-and-tough/#more-16457
http://www.nos.nl/jeugdjournaal/artikelen/2009/9/22/schaakkampioen(15)naarschool.html
http://www.leeuwardercourant.nl/nieuws/video/article5162386.ece/Schaakwonder+(15)+kan+NK+winnen
http://chessbase.de/nachrichten.asp?newsid=9562
http://schaaksite.nl/page.php?id=515
http://guardian.co.tt/sports/other-sports/2009/04/30/flowering-prodigies
http://www.emsdettenervolkszeitung.de/lokales/emsdetten/sport/Anish-Giri-bleibt-beim-SK-Turm;art956,831405
http://chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=5665
http://www.brabantsdagblad.nl/sport/4919200/Anish-Giri-een-logische-denker.ece
http://www.emsdettenervolkszeitung.de/lokales/lokalsport/evsp/Sport-in-Emsdetten;art956,332132
http://www.muensterschezeitung.de/lokales/lokalsport/evsp/Sport-in-Emsdetten;art956,445613
http://www.grevenerzeitung.de/lokales/lokalsport/evsp/Sport-in-Emsdetten;art956,480122
http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=5258
http://www.wavemag.com.np/issue/article3134.html
http://www.schuenemann-verlag.de/schach-magazin/Artikel/Titel.htm
http://chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=5611
http://chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=5655
http://asnta.ru/article/432

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“As I advanced and learned the dangerous truth behind the U.S. policies that seek to develop secret, irresistible powers and concentrate them in the hands of an unaccountable few, human weakness haunted me,” Snowden wrote in the note, which would accompany the first documents he leaked. “As I worked in secret to resist them, selfish fear questioned if the stone thrown by a single man could justify the loss of everything he loves.

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“This puts us on a difficult and dangerous trajectory,” Birol said. “If we don’t do anything between now and 2020, it will be very difficult because there will be a lot of carbon already in the atmosphere and the energy infrastructure will be locked in.”

The energy sector accounts for more than two-thirds of greenhouse gas emissions, so “energy has a crucial role to play in tackling climate change,” the IEA said. Its report urged nations to take four steps, including aggressive energy-efficiency measures, by 2015 to keep alive any hope of limiting climate change to 2 degrees Celsius.

The United States was one of the few relatively bright spots in the report. Switches from coal to shale gas accounted for about half the nation’s 3.8 percent drop in energy-related emissions, which fell for the fourth time in the past five years, dipping to a level last seen in the 1990s. The other factors were a mild winter, declining demand for gasoline and diesel, and the increasing use of renewable energy.

Emissions also fell in Europe.

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Japan’s emissions jumped 5.8 percent as the country imported and burned large amounts of liquefied natural gas and coal to compensate for the loss of electricity production from nuclear plants that have been idle since a tsunami damaged the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex.

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“What I believe is that climate change is slipping down in the political agenda in many countries even though the scientific evidence about climate change continues to mount,” Birol said.

The IEA mapped a way for countries and companies to contain increases in global temperatures. It urged them to implement aggressive energy-efficiency measures; limit the output of inefficient coal plants and mandate that all future coal plants be highly efficient supercritical ones; reduce the release of methane (a potent greenhouse gas) in oil and gas operations; and phase out fossil-fuel subsidies.

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The IEA also warned that the reductions in carbon dioxide released in the United States would be hard to duplicate because natural gas prices were unusually low in 2012 and coal might regain some market share as gas prices rise.

Notwithstanding the Fukushima accident, Birol said nuclear energy remains “a very important option to fight against climate change.” The report also urged the pursuit of carbon capture and storage methods.

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As Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan debates how to quiet the tens of thousands of protesters who are entrenching themselves in dozens of Turkish towns, he upped the ante on Sunday, denouncing them as “anarchists and terrorists” who have taken over the squares of the country.

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Unrest started after a peaceful environmentally focused protest in Istanbul was met May 31 with water cannons and tear gas. Simmering anger over other issues quickly boiled over nationwide. With frustrations varying from region to region, a fast resolution may not be within reach, protesters in this Westernized coastal city say. And with supporters of Istanbul’s raucous soccer clubs joining protesters at the landmark Taksim Square this weekend for the first time and Erdogan on Sunday exhorting his own supporters, fears are growing that a direct confrontation is imminent.

Protesters here in Izmir say they have turned out because they have long felt marginalized by a prime minister who they think has more sympathy for the Middle East than for Europe. Along the border with Syria, protesters object to Erdogan’s support for rebels seeking to oust Syrian President Bashar al-
Assad. In areas plagued by violence from a Kurdish militant group, residents dislike Erdogan’s efforts to broker peace. The one issue that unites protesters across Turkey — especially the young, college-educated residents who dominate the turnout — is a fear that dearly held personal liberties are slipping in favor of religious conservatism.

Erdogan, whose party won a powerful parliamentary majority in 2011 elections, retains broad support among religiously conservative voters, who feel that he is giving them a voice after years in which they had felt neglected. Even among protesters, few expect him to be deposed. But the demonstrations — in at least 78 towns and cities across Turkey, by an Associated Press count — have given an outlet to those whose frustrations have been long pent-up.

“Wherever there is opposition to policies, protests arise in those places,” said Cengiz Candar, a columnist for the Radikal newspaper. “Istanbul is the sum total of Turkey,” he said, the cauldron in which all the issues come together.

But if Erdogan is to end the worst crisis of his 10 years in office, analysts say, he may have to address a far broader constituency.

‘Bastion of the old republic’

This weekend in Izmir, a city of 2.8 million, tens of thousands of protesters jammed a prime stretch of waterfront, lighting green and red flares that twinkled against the lapping waters of the Aegean. They chanted slogans about the military and Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the fiercely Westernizing founder of modern Turkey who restricted head scarves in the halls of government and tried to tie the country to Europe.

And they flew red Turkish flags on which Ataturk’s image was superimposed on the star and crescent — a formulation that one senior Erdogan official said last week was as provocative as the Confederate stars and bars in the United States.

PHOTO: Protests continue in Turkey:Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan acknowledged that some Turks have taken part in the protests out of environmental concerns but insists that terrorist groups are involved in the unrest.
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>>>U.S.A. -- What to expect from Apple WWDC: Rumor roundup

Apple’s chief executive Tim Cook is due to kick off Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) Monday10th in San Francisco, CA, USA with his annual keynote speech.

Company shareholders and fans will be fixing a critical gaze on the conference to see what Apple has planned, particularly since it hasn’t had a major product announcement in more than six months.

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There’s plenty of speculation about what will come up Monday, ranging from the fairly safe prediction that Apple will show off redesigned versions of its mobile and desktop operating systems to the riskier bets that it will have some updated hardware on display.

The company isn’t expected to release a new iPhone or iPad at the event, but could give its laptop lines a refresh, according to a report from CNET that cites analyst Mingchi Kuo of KGI Securities. At last year’s conference, Apple unveiled a new version of the MacBook Pro and an updated MacBook Air. Kuo expects a new version of the MacBook Pro that is thinner and sports an upgrade to Intel’s Haswell processor, and possibly a new MacBook Air with improved microphones.

Another expected — but not confirmed — announcement from the show is the release of an Apple streaming music service similar to Pandora. Nicknamed “iRadio” by the tech press, the service is rumored to be an ad-supported product that will generate music channels based on music that consumers say they like.

The service is expected to be tightly integrated with Apple’s successful iTunes store, making it easy to buy songs with a minimum amount of fuss. Apple has been rumored to be on the verge of announcing a similar service for years, but speculation is particularly high this year as the company faces stiff competition in the music space.

With challenges from Spotify, Pandora and Google’s All Access Music service, and Apple radio service would step into a crowded arena. But it would come with a wide base of users already turning to Apple for music.

WWDC has also traditionally served as the company’s stage to show off updates to its mobile and desktop operating systems. This year, the company is expected to make dramatic changes to the way that its mobile system, iOS, looks.

Last year, after an executive shakeup that included the departure of Apple’s lead iOS designer Scott Forstall, the job of designed hardware and software fell to Apple’s hardware leader Jony Ive. With Ive now in a position to direct the look of the company’s software, many tech bloggers and analysts expect that he will take some of the minimalist design principles he applies to Apple gadgets to the software as well.

That would be a departure from the current system, which relies on replicating real-life textures— such as the green felt on the iOS game center — as a central design tenet.

Some have already picked up clues as to what the new system may look like from the app designed for the conference itself. The WWDC app has fewer shadows and textures on display than it has in the past, as Gizmodo noted, and has an overall crisper look.

Apple, as it did last year, will stream the WWDC keynote on its Web site and on the “Apple Events” channel on Apple TV.

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>>>AFGHANISTAN -- Militants attack Kabul’s international airport

KABUL — A group of assailants launched an attack against the military side of Kabul International Airport before dawn Monday, firing rocket-propelled grenades and small-arms fire, officials said.

The attack forced authorities to cancel flights and sent military personnel and residents scurrying for cover in one of the most heavily guarded sectors of the capital.

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Shortly before 9 a.m., Kabul’s police chief, Gen. Mohammad Ayub Salangi, told reporters that his officers had secured the buildings overlooking the airport that the gunmen had used to launch the attack. The officers said seven of the gunmen were killed.

The Taliban claimed responsibility for the assault, saying it targeted the northern portion of the airport, which includes a large military base that serves the international NATO coalition.

Afghan police said the attack began when a suicide bomber detonated explosives outside a building under construction near the airport, creating an opportunity for the other assailants to take up positions in the facility.

Insurgents have used the tactic in the past to attack other high-profile targets in Kabul, most notably the attack on the U.S. Embassy on Sept. 11, 2011.

Afghans who live near the airport were awaked to loud bangs and gunfire. The alarm at the nearby coalition base rang out, urging people to take cover.

“It sounded very close and very frightening,” said Taj Mohammad Ahmadzada, a government employee. “There are few people on the streets.”

Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said in a text message sent to journalists that “heavy casualties have been inflicted on the enemy.” But Afghan authorities did not say whether there were casualties in Monday’s attack, and the Taliban in the past has made unfounded or exaggerated claims following previous high-profile attacks.

A Western official in Kabul said that as of 8 a.m. Monday, 10 to 12 assailants were believed to be alive. It is unclear whether any were taken into custody. The official spoke on the condition of anonymity to provide preliminary reports. Roads leading to the airport were cordoned off while Afghan security forces sought to gain control of the building where the attack had been staged.

Kabul, a heavily fortified city, has been relatively safe in recent years, compared with other parts of Afghanistan where the Taliban and other militant groups hold considerable sway. Insurgents, however, still occasionally manage to carry out spectacular attacks in the capital.


Sayed Salahuddin contributed to this report.

PHOTO: Afghan security forces killed seven heavily-armed Taliban fighters who attacked near Afghanistan's main airport early Monday morning, apparently targeting NATO's airport headquarters.
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>>>CHINA -- US To Be Largest Trade Partner

Report suggests two countries further deepen cooperation

China and the United States will probably become each other's largest trade partner by 2022, and China will surpass Canada and Mexico to become the largest importer of US goods by then, said a report released on Tuesday.

The report - US-China Economic Relations in the Next 10 Years: Toward Deeper Engagement and Mutual Benefit - was released by the China-US Exchange Foundation, and strongly suggests that the world's top two economies deepen their cooperation over the next decade.

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It said closer ties will benefit the US, helping promote its exports to China and to add jobs domestically, thanks to China's commitment to advancing its urbanization drive and the nation's expanding middle class.

The report was released just days before President Xi Jinping's visit to the US - where he will have his first formal meeting with US President Barack Obama since taking office in March - and six weeks before the Strategic Economic Dialogue between the two countries in Washington.

According to the report, by 2022, the US is expected to surpass the European Union to become China's largest trade partner. It also said China will become the largest importer in the world, with its imports from the US expected to surpass $530 billion, three times the current figure.

By then, US exports to China is projected to create 1.81 million new jobs in the country, and the value of China's exports to the US is expected to grow to $805 billion.

The report said the two nations are complementary to each other, and enhanced ties will benefit both sides.

It suggested that in the next 10 years China and the US should expand cooperation in agriculture, tourism and science and technology - particularly in areas related to energy; jointly advance the Doha Round talks; and conduct negotiations over bilateral free trade agreement. It also encouraged Chinese investment in the US, especially in infrastructure.

"Enhanced bilateral economic cooperation would generate huge commercial benefits for either side and create millions of jobs in both countries," said Tung Chee-hwa, chairman of the China-US Exchange Foundation.

China and the US are each other's second-largest trade partner. In 2012, China-US trade reached $484.7 billion.

China's cumulative outbound direct investment in the US' non-financial sector reached $10 billion by the end of 2012, while cumulative US direct investment in China stood at $70 billion, according to the Ministry of Commerce.

"We all agree that we want to see the US-China relationship succeed. We have made progress in some of the bilateral issues. We have not yet in my mind filled our full potential," said Myron Brilliant, executive vice-president and head of the international affairs at the US Chamber of Commerce.

Carlos Gutierrez, former secretary of commerce, agreed. He said that China-US relations are "very much like a marriage. We are still in the early years What we've done in the past 30 years is very small compared to what we can do together in the next 30 years".

China and the US are heralding a new period of development. China is committed to expanding domestic consumption and to advancing urbanization, and the US plans to add jobs and expand exports in addition to conducting massive infrastructure projects.

According to Gary Locke, the US ambassador to China, the two countries "are so economically interdependent, and that will not change".

Huo Jianguo, president of the Chinese Academy of International Trade and Economic Cooperation, said: "China-US cooperation does not only matter to the two countries, it is extremely important to help stabilize global growth."

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>>>ARGENTINA -- Ya van tres domingos que Lanata le gana al fútbol

El rating de Periodismo para Todos superó el partido Racing-Boca. Tuvo picos de 23,5.

Por tercer domingo consecutivo el programa Periodismo para Todos de Jorge Lanata volvió a ganarle al fútbol.

Y al final del partido de Racing-Boca, la diferencia fue gigantesca, 23,5 de Lanata y escasos 14,6, el fútbol. La estrategia K para opacar al programa, tampoco dio resultado ayer.

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Periodismo para Todos arrancó a las 22,20 con 10 puntos mientras el partido Racing-Boca estaba entonces en 24. Pero Fútbol para Todos enseguida empezó a descender mientras Lanata hacía su monólogo. Diez minutos después, el fútbol bajaba a 18,7 puntos y Lanata subía a 15,7 puntos. A las 22,47, Lanata revelaba detalles del garito de Acero Cali, el custodio de Guillermo Moreno y el rating alcanzaba 21,3, mientras Racing-Boca descendía a 19,2.

El primer domingo de la lucha entablada por el Gobierno para tratar de quitarle rating al programa de Lanata, la victoria fue claramente a favor de PPT, con 24,7 puntos de promedio contra 16 del fútbol. Y eso que esa vez, domingo 26 de mayo, el partido elegido desde la Jefatura de Gabinete tenía a Boca Juniors entre sus protagonistas, en este caso contra Newell’s Old Boys de Rosario, entonces líder del campeonato local.

Aquella vez, Lanata puso al aire las fotografías que el empleado de Austral Construcciones Sergio Triviño habría tomado del desmantelamiento de la supuesta bóveda en el subsuelo de la chacra del empresario Lázaro Báez en las afueras de Río Gallegos. Triviño luego negó ante la Justicia haber tomado las fotografías que la diputada Elisa Carrió entregó a la Justicia.

El domingo siguiente, 2 de junio, la lucha fue contra el otro equipo que se disputa con Boca la mayor cantidad de hinchas: River Plate. Sin embargo, Lanata picó en punta en el entretiempo de River-Argentinos Juniors y no cedería el primer lugar hasta el final del programa.

Ese domingo se emitió un informe sobre la liviandad de los pasos fronterizos y la posibilidad de cruzar a Uruguay, por ejemplo, en lancha, sin que nadie controle.

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>>>ARGENTINA -- Lanata mantuvo el invicto

En una semana en la que los horarios de los partidos fueron más que nunca cuestión de Estado, "Periodismo para Todos" se impuso al fútbol por tercera vez consecutiva.

Tras una semana en la que, más que nunca, los horarios del fútbol fueron cuestión de Estado, Periodismo para Todos, el programa de Jorge Lanata en El Trece, mantuvo el invicto. Un Racing-Boca deslucido por el hecho de que ninguno de los dos equipos peleaba por nada tampoco pudo ganarle el mano a mano en el rating al periodístico.

Salvo en los primeros minutos del programa de Lanata, cuando terminaba el primer tiempo en Avellaneda, PPT estuvo al frente en la competencia directa entre los dos productos televisivos.

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El programa de Lanata arrancó poco después de las 22 con un rating de 12,1 puntos, cuando los minutos finales de la primera etapa del partido casi llegaba a 22.

A partir de ahí, la disputa se dio vuelta. Ya a las 22.22, PPT medía 18,2, mientras que el Fútbol para Todos descendía a 15,4 puntos de rating. En el entretiempo del partido se dio la máxima diferencia: 22,3 a 10,8.

El fútbol no volvió a superar los 20 puntos, y de hecho fue descendiendo a medida que se consolidaba la victoria de Racing para terminar en 17,8 puntos. Una vez finalizado el fútbol, PPT obtuvo su marca máxima, con 25,5 puntos de rating.

Las cifras oficiales del rating de la medidora Ibope, junto con los promedios de cada programa, se concerán mañana por la mañana.

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>>>ARGENTINA -- Ya tiene su propio tango el Papa Francisco

El ámbito no podía ser más porteño: el fondo de una “casa chorizo”, como se las llamaba a aquellas viejas casonas largas y angostas, en el barrio de Flores, la glorieta para refugiarse del sol y la mecedora de mimbre que permitía el bamboleo justo. Hace más de medio siglo, allí pasaba largos ratos el joven Jorge Bergoglio deleitándose con una de sus grandes pasiones: el tango. Sea escuchándolos por radio, sea poniendo antiguos discos de pasta, Bergoglio ya sentía el placer que muchos descubren de grande, después de que la vida dejó unas cuantas marcas.

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El haber abrazado la vocación religiosa no le impidió a Bergoglio convertirse en gran conocedor del dos por cuatro. De la primera etapa del tango, prefiere la orquesta de D’Airenzo. Y, como cantantes, a Carlos Gardel, Ada Falcón (que después de hizo monja) y Julio Sosa. De la segunda, a Astor Piazzolla y a Amelita Baltar que, a su juicio, es la que mejor canta sus obras. Vecino de Susana Maizani, le dio la unción de los enfermos.

Bergoglio nunca ocultó su pasión tanguera. Una pasión que sintoniza con su amor por Buenos Aires. “El tango me gusta muchísimo; es algo que me sale muy de adentro”, le dijo hace unos años. Reconoció incluso que en sus años mozos lo bailaba (aunque prefería la milonga). Claro que nunca pensó que la confesión de su afición musical sería, tras su elección como Papa, no sólo un motivo adicional de emoción para los tangueros de ley, sino el disparador de un tango que lo tendría como protagonista.

Allí confluyeron el talento del periodista Enrique Bugatti –por muchos años del staff de Clarín –, para la letra, y de Edmundo Rivero (h) para la música. Interpretado por el gran José Colángelo y su orquesta, fue grabado hace pocos días. El sueño del querido Enrique era que lo escuchara Francisco y había iniciado gestiones para verlo hecho realidad. No pudo ser. Su vida se apagó esta semana. Pero… ¡qué contento se pondrá observando ‘desde arriba’ cuando “Un tango para Francisco” lo escuche su destinatario, ya no bajo la glorieta de la casona de Flores, sino en medio de los jardines vaticanos!

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>>>CHINA -- Futuro incierto para el ex técnico de la CIA que reveló el espionaje masivo

Edward Snowden se refugia en un hotel de Hong Kong tras admitir que fue él quien filtró el tema. Y analizaría pedir asilo en algún país que se niegue a extraditarlo.

Edward Snowden, ex técnico de la CIA que trabajó como consultor para la Agencia Nacional de Inteligencia (NSA) de EE.UU. que reveló los programas confidenciales de vigilancia de las comunicaciones que implementa Washington, se encuentra alojado en estos momentos en Hong Kong, que tiene tratado de extradición con Estados Unidos, y enfrenta un futuro incierto.

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Snowden, de 29 años, está recluido en el cuarto de un hotel de ese territorio de administración especial china, a donde viajó el 20 de mayo tras copiar los últimos documentos que decidió revelar de la oficina de la Agencia Nacional de Seguridad (NSA) en Hawai, señaló el británico The Guardian.
El consulado de Estados Unidos y las autoridades de Hong Kong se negaron a confirmar hoy la presencia de Snowden, quien dijo en una entrevista por video publicada en el sitio web del periódico que podría pedir asilo a Islandia, cuya reputación es la de apoyar "a los que defienden la libertad en internet".
"No tenemos nada en este momento", declaró a la agencia AFP Scott Robinson, responsable adjunto de Asuntos Públicos del consulado estadounidense en Hong Kong.
La Oficina de Seguridad de Hong Kong, responsable de los temas de inmigración, la policía y los servicios de inteligencia, tampoco quiso hacer comentarios, al igual que el consulado islandés.
El ex analista de la CIA Bob Baer señaló a la cadena CNN que Estados Unidos seguramente buscará su extradición. "El gobierno está obligado a perseguirlo. No pueden pasar esto por alto", añadió.

Hasta el momento no ha habido reacciones oficiales de las autoridades de Hong Kong o de China. Ambas instancias pueden negarse a entregar a Snowden.
En un comunicado tras la revelación de la identidad de Snowden, la oficina del Director de Inteligencia Nacional dijo que el asunto había sido "cursado al Departamento de Justicia". "La comunidad de inteligencia está actualmente evaluando los daños causados por estas recientes revelaciones", señaló el texto.
El Departamento de Justicia confirmó haber abierto una investigación por las filtraciones, pero declinó hacer más comentarios.
"No tengo ninguna intención de ocultarme porque sé que no hice nada malo", dijo Snowden, en la entrevista de video con The Guardian. No obstante, agregó que "no creo que vuelva a ver mi hogar".
Ex técnico de la CIA, Snowden, trabajó durante cuatro años en la NSA como empleado de varias subcontratistas, incluyendo Dell y Booz Allen Hamilton, su último empleador.
"Mi único objetivo es informar a la gente sobre lo que se está haciendo en su nombre y lo que se hace en su contra", dijo al justificar su accionar.
Hace tres semanas, tuvo que dejar a su pareja, con la que disfrutaba de una vida cómoda en Hawai, para volar a Hong Kong antes de la divulgación de las filtraciones, dijo el diario.
"Estoy dispuesto a sacrificar todo esto porque no puedo, en mi alma y mi conciencia, permitir al gobierno de Estados Unidos que destruya la vida privada, la libertad de internet y las libertades fundamentales de todo el mundo con este enorme sistema de monitoreo que se está llevado a cabo secretamente", dijo.
Filtraciones publicadas por The Washington Post y The Guardian revelaron la existencia del PRISM, un programa para recopilar rastros dejados en internet por personas fuera de Estados Unidos.
Los diarios también revelaron que la NSA ha accedido desde 2006 a registros de las horas y la duración de las llamadas telefónicas realizadas en Estados Unidos, como parte de una operación de monitoreo y recolección de datos para anticipar planes terroristas.

FOTO: Edward Snowden, durante una entrevista en exclusiva que concedió a los periodistas Greenwald y Laura Poitras, en Hong Kong. (EFE)
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>>>NICARAGUA -- Con China, Nicaragua alimenta el sueño de su canal interoceánico

Lo impulsa el presidente Ortega. Ambientalistas y la oposición lo critican por inviable.

El antiguo sueño de construir un canal interoceánico que permita el paso de grandes buques entre el Caribe y el Pacífico es la apuesta de Nicaragua para intentar duplicar su crecimiento económico y generar más empleos, una obra cuya viabilidad es cuestionada por ambientalistas y oposición.

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Dos proyectos de ley que entregarían esa obra de grandes dimensiones a una empresa china hasta por un siglo fueron enviados a una comisión legislativa que inició de forma expedita las consultas (excluyendo a ambientalistas) sobre su viabilidad, previo a la discusión en el plenario el próximo jueves.

Con la construcción del nuevo canal, el Ejecutivo calcula que se elevará el crecimiento del producto interno bruto (PIB) de Nicaragua de entre un 4-5 por ciento a un 10,8 en 2014; un 15 en 2015 e incluso “doblar” su economía en 2018, según dijo el secretario de políticas públicas del Gobierno, Paul Oquist, a medios oficiales. De acuerdo con las proyecciones oficiales, el empleo formal pasaría de las actuales 623.458 personas a 1,9 millones con la construcción de la obra.

La centenaria obra que demorará en construirse al menos diez años y en principio costará 40.000 millones de dólares, de aprobarse en el Congreso, donde el oficialismo es mayoría. El proyecto sería cedido a la compañía china HK Nicaragua Canal Development Investment Co. Limited, con sede en Hong Kong.

Construir un nuevo juego de gigantescas esclusas le cuesta a Panamá unos 5.600 millones de dólares y un trabajo de 8 años, entre 2007 y 2015.

La propuesta del presidente Daniel Ortega es entregar durante cincuenta años, prorrogables por otros cincuenta, la concesión del canal a esa firma china, cuyo director Wang Jing, “no es un inversionista, sino un abogado” de una “empresa de papel” sin experiencia en asuntos de esta índole, según critica la oposición. La idea de construir una vía interoceánica por Nicaragua se remonta a 1826, cinco años después de la independencia de Centroamérica de la Corona española.

La oposición y ambientalistas independientes ponen en entredicho ese proyecto. El subdirector del ambientalista Centro Humboldt, Víctor Campos, dijo que el canal, si atraviesa el Gran Lago, violaría la Ley General de Aguas Nacionales, porque ese cuerpo de agua es una “reserva nacional de agua potable”.

Además, advirtió que la profundidad promedio del Gran Lago es de 10 metros y la profundidad que se necesitaría para el canal sería de 24 metros, lo cual implicaría dragar el fondo del lago y eso degradaría la calidad del agua.

El titular del Congreso, el sandinista René Núñez, basado en los archivos legislativos, explicó que fue en 1830 cuando Nicaragua comenzó a promover la construcción de un canal, y tres años después cedió a una sociedad de capitalistas holandeses la primera concesión para iniciar la obra, sin éxito.

En 1849, durante la “fiebre del oro” en Estados Unidos, Nicaragua cedió una concesión a Cornelio Vanderbilt para construir un canal y utilizar la ruta río San Juan-Lago de Nicaragua-Istmo de Rivas, en el sur del país. En 1850 se dio el tratado Clayton-Bulwer que tuvo como propósito neutralizar esa concesión y garantizar que ni Estados Unidos ni Inglaterra, por su lado, construirían un canal por Nicaragua y que, si se hacía, sería bajo el auspicio de ambos. En 1887, mediante un decreto legislativo, se aprobó una concesión de 99 años para construir un canal por Nicaragua a través del río San Juan, cruzando el Gran Lago y llegando al Pacífico, a lo que se opuso el Reino Unido por diferencias con Estados Unidos. En 1904 el Congreso de los Estados Unidos descartó construir un canal interoceánico en Nicaragua y se decidió por la ruta de Panamá.

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>>>ALEMANIA -- Miles de evacuados en Alemania por el desborde de los ríos Elba y Saale

Es la peor inundación que sufre la región en los últimos años. El agua retrocedió en República Checa y Austria, pero en Hungría se preparaban para graves daños.

Decenas de miles de personas fueron evacuadas hoy en ciudades a orillas de los ríos Elba y Saale en Alemania, ante la peor inundación que sufre la región en los últimos años.

El estado federado de Sajonia-Anhalt es el más afectado y se espera que las crecidas avancen a principios de semana hacia el norte del país, según un despacho de la agencia alemana DPA.

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Las autoridades pidieron a unas 23.000 personas en la ciudad de Magdeburgo que abandonaran sus casas por precaución, ya que el nivel del Elba roza los 7,45 metros, 70 centímetros más que el registrado en 2002 durante la llamada "inundación del siglo" en Europa.

Otros 30.000 residentes de la cercana Halle fueron evacuados de sus casas, mientras el presidente Joachim Gauck visitaba la zona y participaba en un oficio religioso junto a cientos de vecinos, voluntarios y funcionarios.

"Volveremos a lograrlo, como lo hicimos en 2002", dijo el mandatario aludiendo a los trabajos de reconstrucción tras las graves inundaciones de ese año.

Unos 70.000 bomberos y 11.000 soldados están movilizados en toda Alemania para asistir a los servicios de emergencia, ya que está previsto que las crecidas avancen al norte y que el Elba llegue a los 8,10 metros el martes.

El agua retrocedió en República Checa y Austria, pero Hungría se preparaba para sufrir graves inundaciones. Miles de voluntarios colocaban sacos de arena para contener el río Danubio, que a su paso por Budapest alcanzó los 8,87 metros.

Las inundaciones más graves de los últimos años en Europa castigaron especialmente Alemania, Hungría, Polonia, Austria y República Checa y dejaron más de una decena de muertos a lo largo de la semana.

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eye suspect... Pakistan will be got ouuut :p
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something that explains the great AMERICAN EDUCATION

Reporter Mistakenly Interview Imran Khan (Actor)Instead of Imran Khan (PTI Chief)
IN NEWS / ON MARCH 28, 2013 AT 8:42 PM /
New York based CNN correspondent, Julia Whitehead, who was supposed to interview Pakistani cricketing legend turned politician, Imran Khan, ended up interviewing Bollywood actor Imran Khan instead under a case of mistaken identity. Julia had been recently assigned to the South Asian bureau and is working on an upcoming article on politicians from the sub-continent. Unfortunately, her knowledge of Bollywood, Cricket and South Asia in general is very sketchy, which led to her interviewing the wrong Khan. An Indian colleague had casually mentioned that Imran Khan was in New York shooting for a movie and the unsuspecting Julia promptly scheduled an interview with him before he left. Bollywood Actor, Imran Khan, in turn gladly agreed to the interview hoping it would fetch him some publicity and enhance his image with Indians living in America.

Here are excerpts from the fox interview that CNN kindly shared :
Julia: Thank you Mr. Khan for agreeing to the interview. Must say, you look quite young for your age. What is the secret of your youthful looks?
Imran (slightly taken aback): er… thanks. I work hard to pass off as a 22 year old although I am 28. Good sleeping habits, exercise and healthy diet do the trick for me.
Julia (giggling): Mr. Khan, your sense of humour is delectable… For a fast bowler, you have quite a small build and frame. How did you manage to be successful in your sporting career despite being so puny?
Imran (blushing): You yanks have a very weird sense of humour. Er… my cute looks and puny frame help bowl maidens over, you see. Hopefully, I will continue to maintain a good strike rate going forward also.
Julia (now laughing hysterically): I was told that Cricket is a sophisticated sport that we Americans will never be able to understand. I can see why now. On a serious note, how easy was it to make the transition to full time political activism?
Imran (raises his eye brows quizzically): er… I am not really a full time activist. I sometimes take a stand on issues of dubious public interest such as filing a PIL against increasing the legal age for drinking mainly to garner some publicity and increase my star value.
Julia: Wow, you advocate that drinking should be legalized? Mr. Khan, you realize that your life can be in danger for taking such a bold and extreme stand…
Imran: Hmm… now you are scaring me. Why would anyone want to kill me for taking such a stand? This is India for heaven’s sake, not Pakistan.
Julia (confused): er…but aren’t you a Pakistani?
Imran: Hell no!!
Julia: Huh? Wait a minute, aren’t you the famous cricketing legend Imran Khan who won the World Cup for Pakistan in 1992?
(Imran, whose ears slowly begin to turn scarlet, just stares at her)
Julia (still confused): Well then, who are you?
(Imran opens his mouth in indignation, but no words come out. He abruptly stands up and walks away leaving a confused Julia behind)
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In other news, 19 hours, 33 minutes and 27 seconds until Nintendo E3 Direct?
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Yesterday I drew a monkey butt on a chalk board. It made the journal star. Such a great feeling to have my art get recognition.

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Electronic Arts will be presenting at E3 at 1pm Pacific/4pm Eastern. Check back on Fanpedia for all the Star Wars gaming news that comes out of it!
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Tune in 1pm PT TODAY as EA unveils its next generation of games with news on Battlefield 4, FIFA, Madden, UFC, NBA LIVE, Need For Speed, Star Wars and more!
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Oxford marches de la fierté en dépit attaque anti-gay.

Les organisateurs affirment que l'attaque d'un homme gay dans le sud de l'Angleterre ville universitaire prouve pourquoi gay pride a besoin d'exister.

Oxford fierté marcha sur et a été appelé un «succès» en dépit d'une attaque homophobe au cours de la semaine.

La police enquête après que deux hommes ont battu un homme de 29 ans dans la mardi dernier (4 Juin).

Dave Legg, président d'Oxford fierté, a déclaré Gay Nouvelles Star comment une attaque comme cela prouve pourquoi nous avons besoin de fierté.

«J'ai été très surpris que Oxford est une ville très sympathique. Nous recevons parfois des propos homophobes, mais une attaque est très rare », at-il dit.

L'attaque a eu lieu après un événement de l'égalité des LGBT à une salle de concert.

Selon la police, les hommes ont utilisé un langage homophobe avant de poing et coups de pied au sol.

«C'est horrible», a déclaré Terri Talbot Oxford fierté. «Nul ne devrait être attaqué pour ce qu'ils sont.

Elle a ajouté: «Ce défilé n'est pas d'être homosexuel ou bisexuel, il s'agit de l'égalité pour tous et de dire non à la violence».

Le samedi (8 Juin), plus de 200 personnes ont participé au défilé et 3000 sont venus à travers les portes d'un événement sur le terrain. Legg dit alors que la majorité des gens étaient au courant de l'incident, il n'a pas empêché de la «bonne ambiance».

Le message de Legg pour le Oxford et de la communauté LGBT a été de contacter les personnes concernées si jamais ils ont entendu parler de l'expérience d'une attaque anti-gay. «Quand les choses ne sont pas signalés, alors ils ne peuvent pas être résolus, dit-il. 10 June 2013 | By Joe Morgan-Gay Star News.
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breaking cricket fans news
after the chris gayle scored 175* then pakistani star alrounder SHAHID AFRIDI scored 156* just 30 balls in sharjah super sixes stadium.....continue to reading
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WHO????? Oh well! It's not like I'm going to watch it right?? well! maybe in mp4 format!

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Dear people all around the world, Turkey urgently needs your support and help!
8 days ago

I am writing to let you know what is going on in Istanbul for the last five days. I personally have to write this because most of the media sources are shut down by the government and the word of mouth and the internet are the only ways left for us to explain ourselves and call for help and support.

Four days ago a group of people who did not belong to any specific organization or ideology got together in Istanbul’s Gezi Park which is one of the rare green area left in the city. Among them there were many of my friends and students. Their reason was simple: To prevent and protest the upcoming demolishing of the park for the sake of building yet another shopping mall at very center of the city. There are numerous shopping malls in Istanbul, at least one in every neighborhood! The tearing down of the trees was supposed to begin early Thursday morning. People went to the park with their blankets, books and children. They put their tents down and spent the night under the trees. Early in the morning when the bulldozers started to pull the hundred-year-old trees out of the ground, they stood up against them to stop the operation.

They did nothing other than standing in front of the machines.

No newspaper, no television channel was there to report the protest. It was a complete media black out.

But the police arrived with water cannon vehicles and pepper spray. They chased the crowds out of the park.

In the evening the number of protesters multiplied. So did the number of police forces around the park. Meanwhile local government of Istanbul shut down all the ways leading up to Taksim square where the Gezi Park is located. The metro was shut down, ferries were cancelled, roads were blocked.

Yet more and more people made their way up to the center of the city by walking.

They came from all around Istanbul. They came from all different backgrounds, different ideologies, different religions. They all gathered to prevent the demolition of something bigger than the park:

The right to live as honorable citizens of this country.

They gathered and marched. Police chased them with pepper spray and tear gas and drove their tanks over people who offered the police food in return. Two young people were run over by the tanks and were killed. Another young woman, a friend of mine, was hit in the head by one of the incoming tear gas canisters. The police were shooting them straight into the crowd. After a three hour operation she is still in Intensive Care Unit and in very critical condition. As I write this we don’t know if she is going to make it. This blog is dedicated to her.

These people are my friends. They are my students, my relatives. They have no «hidden agenda» as the state likes to say. Their agenda is out there. It is very clear. The whole country is being sold to corporations by the government, for the construction of malls, luxury condominiums, freeways, dams and nuclear plants. The government is looking for (and creating when necessary) any excuse to attack Syria against its people’s will.

On top of all that, the government control over its people’s personal lives has become unbearable as of late. The state, under its conservative agenda passed many laws and regulations concerning abortion, cesarean birth, sale and use of alcohol and even the color of lipstick worn by the airline stewardesses.

People who are marching to the center of Istanbul are demanding their right to live freely and receive justice, protection and respect from the State. They demand to be involved in the decision-making processes about the city they live in.

What they have received instead is excessive force and enormous amounts of tear gas shot straight into their faces. Three people lost their eyes.

Yet they still march. Hundred of thousands join them. Couple of more thousand passed the Bosporus Bridge on foot to support the people of Taksim.

No newspaper or TV channel was there to report the events. They were busy with broadcasting news about Miss Turkey and “the strangest cat of the world”.

Police kept chasing people and spraying them with pepper spray to an extent that stray dogs and cats were poisoned and died by it.

Schools, hospitals and even 5 star hotels around Taksim Square opened their doors to the injured. Doctors filled the classrooms and hotel rooms to provide first aid. Some police officers refused to spray innocent people with tear gas and quit their jobs. Around the square they placed jammers to prevent internet connection and 3g networks were blocked. Residents and businesses in the area provided free wireless network for the people on the streets. Restaurants offered food and water for free.

People in Ankara and İzmir gathered on the streets to support the resistance in Istanbul.

Mainstream media kept showing Miss Turkey and “the strangest cat of the world”.

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I am writing this letter so that you know what is going on in Istanbul. Mass media will not tell you any of this. Not in my country at least. Please post as many as articles as you see on the Internet and spread the word.

As I was posting articles that explained what is happening in Istanbul on my Facebook page last night someone asked me the following question:

«What are you hoping to gain by complaining about our country to foreigners?»

This blog is my answer to her.

By so called «complaining» about my country I am hoping to gain:

Freedom of expression and speech,

Respect for human rights,

Control over the decisions I make concerning my on my body,

The right to legally congregate in any part of the city without being considered a terrorist.

But most of all by spreading the word to you, my friends who live in other parts of the world, I am hoping to get your awareness, support and help!

Please spread the word and share this blog.

Thank you!

For futher info and things you can do for help please see Amnesty International’s Call for Urgent Help
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Big congrats goes out to Christopher Oscar Pena (co-writer and co-star, "Chris") for the opening night of the first professional production of his play "A Cautionary Tale" at the Flea theater in NYC. Go see this play and support an "80/20" rockstar. Here's a link to the info: http://www.playbill.com/news/article/177195-World-Premiere-of-A-Cautionary-Tail-and-NY-Premiere-of-White-Hot-Will-Play-The-Flea
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Dear Queensryche, I Know You're Playing Columbus Here Soon...But, I Think You Should Play In Cincy Too! Thanks, HELLBILLY \m/
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Which newly announced Xbox One games are you most excited for?
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