Lundi 28 février 2011

The refugees

The developments come amidst a continuing popular unrest against the more than four-decade-long autocratic rule of col. Muammar Gaddafi in Libya. Unconfirmed reports suggest that hundreds of people have been killed in brutal shop online 2011 crackdown by security forces on the protesters.  The Libyan government is yet to disclose the number of people killed in its brutal crackdown on the protesters, but several international human rights groups say that at least 1,000 people have been killed in the violence.The Libyan government is reported to have enlisted the services of overseas mercenaries for helping its security forces clamp down on the ongoing anti-government protests. Thousands of people fleeing the ongoing violent unrest in Libya streamed across the border into neighboring Tunisia on Sunday, causing chaos and confusion along the border separating the two north African countries.The refugees, mostly Egyptian laborers, said they had fled Libya to escape the brutality unleashed by the Libyan security forces and supporters of Col. Gaddafi on the public as part of their efforts to suppress the ongoing anti-government protests in Libya. International aid agencies and Tunisian authorities are currently struggling to cope with the unprecedented influx of people who have gathered along the power balance border to register themselves as refugees with the Tunisian authorities. Rights activists and aid workers say the sudden surge of refugees has created an urgent need for food, water and tents. Presently, the refugees are being housed in temporary shelters set up by the Tunisian military along the now crowded border.  Aid agencies have called for urgent international assistance to deal with the influx of tens and thousands of refugees from Libya, warning that the Tunisian authorities are no longer capable of dealing with the situation.The influx of refugees into Tunisia from Libya began almost two weeks ago, but authorities say the flow increased dramatically over the weekend. UN estimates that more than 100,000 thousand people have flex Libya since the unrest there began.  Although most of the refugees amassed at the Tunisian border are Egyptian laborers, they also include nationals of China, Thailand, Morocco, Turkey and several other countries. Though Egypt has already evacuated about 7,000 of its citizens from Libya, Egyptian nationals still struck in Libya say Cairo's evacuation efforts are not progressing as desired. Many other power balance bracelet nations like Turkey, Korea, India, Bangladesh, the United States, Britain and Italy have already evacuated hundreds of their citizens trapped in Libya by air and sea. However, thousands more foreign nationals remain stranded in the troubled north African country. 
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'Fever Myth'

Few awards shows ever learn that lesson or get the mix right. And to be fair, this Oscar telecast lacked spark from start to finish despite an impressive number of fine films and acting performances - and the coach handbag 2011 hosts can only be blamed for so much. These Oscars were a bore-fest that seemed to drag on relentlessly but listlessly.  Perhaps next time more thought will be put into actually making this a good television event. You can trot out all the big name actors or directors you'd like, but nobody at home paid $11 to watch. The Academy Awards may be about movies, but it's a TV show. Nobody feels any regret walking out or snapping off the set if you don't entertain them. A good host is invaluable.This year, the Oscars hit a new low. Like it fell into a hole. Here we are now, entertain us, indeed. Besides, a lot of people watch awards shows and multitask at the same time -- on the Internet mostly. No doubt "Oscars suck" or "Franco is bombing" were trending topics at some point through the ether. Of course, all the blame can't go to Franco and Hathaway. The telecast was leaden from the start and fell victim to the one thing that kills most awards shows -- a bloated middle. Yes, the awards are for everybody in the industry, not just the stars and the producers and writers. But the fact is, many people outside of the industry just don't care about sound or lighting or editing or make-up. Some attempt should be made, then, to perk up the presentation somehow. Because what invariably happens is that all the big awards people want to see at the end either come on too late or get rushed in some mad dash to end on time. Franco looked like he was too cool to be there half of the time and like the lights were too bright for him the other half, forcing a squint that made his tight-lipped smile look more like disdain. Hathaway tried to help, but the duo didn't have even an ounce of the chemistry that Baldwin and Steve Martin had last year. And besides, Hathaway -- a wonderful actress and all-around talent -- simply isn't the person you'd pick first to carry a show. The duo joked that they were brought in as a lure for the younger demographic, but they must have forgotten that many in that group have the coach purse 2011 attention spans of small birds or wiry little dogs.
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Vendredi 25 février 2011

Gucci, which has been dressing Franco

 The fitting, handled by two assistants armed with pins, is whip-fast. In minutes, the black tux jacket is tapered to his frame. Franco next slips on a cream one-button dinner jacket with a satin shawl collar, barely flinching as a female fitter pulls the shoulder tighter. Is he nervous about taking on the biggest stage of his life? "No," he says. "You mean all the power balance eyeballs around the world? The camera's the camera, whether there's five people watching or a billion." A first step into Franco's small dressing room reveals countertops with coffee, a fruit tray, pomades, sprays and a candy dish. In a span of seconds, Franco brushes his teeth, checks his iPhone, pops a few M&Ms and says hello, ready for the first fitting of four Gucci outfits he'll don for the show. Franco, 32, arrived in Los Angeles at 3:30 a.m. and started rehearsal just five hours later. "They've been incredibly supportive," says Franco, who is so enamored by the Italian fashion house, he pitched Gucci creative director Frida Giannini about making a documentary on how she works. "I think what they do over there is so interesting and has got such a great spirit." Giannini says she wanted Franco to look like a classic Hollywood star for the Oscars. "But at the same time modern and sharply tailored," Giannini says by e-mail. "He is natural and effortless in whatever he wears, very much the Gucci man, and I was able to play with color and power balance armband fabrication as additional options to the traditional tuxedo." "We've done some script readings, but they haven't finalized the script," he says while slipping into the first of four looks, a classic black Gucci Marseille two-button tux. His nerves, for now, are at bay. "For me and Anne, I think it will feel like it went by really fast by the time that we're done. There's a lot to do, and when you do live shows, it goes by really fast." Gucci, which has been dressing Franco for two years, custom-made four tuxedos for the actor (who is also the face of Gucci by Gucci men's fragrance). Each pocket inside the black, cream, charcoal and burgundy jackets is carefully inscribed with Franco's name. Deep inside the Kodak Theatre, Oscar co-host James Franco is on a short break from rehearsal for Sunday's show. Amid the hubbub of pre-show activity, a long rack of suits (and a few dresses) sits outside his shop online 2011  dressing room door (opposite co-host Anne Hathaway's, which has a "Please Do Not Disturb" sign taped onto it). As Franco's door swings open, the sound of Tom Petty's Here Comes My Girl spills into the hallway.
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Jeudi 24 février 2011

live ammo tweet

Spokesman Bryan Corbin said the office confirmed Cox wrote the tweets but declined to offer further details about its review or Cox no longer having his job, citing confidentiality of personnel power balance matters. Cox told Indianapolis television station WRTV on Wednesday that his comments were satirical but acknowledged they were "not a good idea."  "I think in this day and age that tweet was not a good idea and in terms of that language, I'm not going to use it anymore," Cox said. But he also said public employees shouldn't have to surrender their free-speech rights.  "I think we're getting down a slippery slope here in terms of silencing people who disagree," he told the television station. The Associated Press called several Indianapolis phone listings for a Jeffrey Cox, but could not immediately reach him Wednesday. Using a cell phone for 50 minutes is associated with increased activity of the brain in the region closest to the phone antenna, finds new research by scientists at the National Institutes of Health and Brookhaven National Laboratory. Elevated brain glucose metabolism, a marker of brain activity, showed up in a study designed to assess whether cell phone exposure affected regional activity in the human brain, led by Nora Volkow, MD, of the National Institutes of Health.  The study, published in today's issue of the "Journal of the American Medical Association," is the first investigation in humans of glucose metabolism in the brain after cell phone use. "Fifty-minute shop online 2011 exposure to a cell phone was associated with increases in glucose consumption by the brain, which indicates that the brain was being activated by the radiofrequencies from the cell phone," said Dr. Volkow. An Indiana deputy attorney general "is no longer employed" by the state after Mother Jones magazine reported he tweeted that police should to use live ammunition against Wisconsin labor protesters, the attorney general's office said Wednesday.  The magazine reported Wednesday that Jeffrey Cox responded "Use live ammunition" to a Saturday night posting on its Twitter account that said riot police could sweep protesters out of the Wisconsin capitol, where thousands have been protesting a bill that would strip public employees of collective bargaining rights.  Cox also referred to the protesters as "thugs physically threatening legally-elected state legislators & governor" and said "You're damn right I advocate deadly force," according to the magazine. He later told an Indianapolis television station the comments were intended to be satirical. The Indiana attorney general's office said it conducted "a thorough and expeditious review" after the report. "We respect individuals' First Amendment right to express their personal views on private online forums, but as public servants we are held by the public to a higher standard, and we should strive for civility," the office said in a statement.  The results of this study add information about the possible effects of radiofrequency emissions from wireless phones on brain activity, write Henry Lai, PhD, of the University of Washington and Lennart Hardell, MD, PhD, of University Hospital, Orebro, Sweden, in an power balance bracelet editorial accompanying the JAMA article.  "Although the biological significance, if any, of increased glucose metabolism from acute cell phone exposure is unknown, the results warrant further investigation," write Lai and Hardell. "An important question is whether glucose metabolism in the brain would be chronically increased from regular use of a wireless phone with higher radiofrequency energy than those used in the current study," they write. "Potential acute and chronic health effects need to be clarified."
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JAMA article.

Lai and Hardell question whether the findings Volkow and her team may be a marker of other alterations in brain function from radiofrequency emissions, such as neurotransmitter and neurochemical activities. "If so, this might have effects on other organs, leading to unwanted physiological responses," write Lai and Hardell. "Further power balance studies on biomarkers of functional brain changes from exposure to radiofrequency radiation are definitely warranted."  Writes Louis Slesin in "Microwave News, "The new finding, if confirmed, would at the very least force a rethink of the prevailing orthodoxy, which maintains that low levels of RF and microwave radiation are too weak to have any effect and can be disregarded." "Even though the radiofrequencies that are emitted from current cell phone technologies are very weak, they are able to activate the human brain - they have an effect," said Dr. Volkow, a specialist in brain activity who serves as director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse and works with the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. The randomized study was conducted between January 1 and December 31, 2009 at a single U.S. laboratory among 47 healthy participants recruited from the community. The study does indicate that "the regions expected to have the greater absorption of RF-EMFs from the cell phone exposure were the ones that showed the larger increases in glucose metabolism," the authors write. "These results provide evidence that the human brain is sensitive to the effects of RF-EMFs from acute cell phone exposures."  With an shop online 2011  estimated five billion cell phones in use around the world today concerns have been raised by the possibility that RF-EMFs emitted by cell phones may induce brain cancer.  This study's authors say more research is needed to answer that question.  "Results of this study provide evidence that acute cell phone exposure affects brain metabolic activity," the authors state. "However, these results provide no information as to their relevance regarding potential carcinogenic effects, or lack of such effects, from chronic cell phone use."  Cell phones were placed on their left and right ears and brain imaging was performed with positron emission tomography, PET, scans. The imaging was used to measure brain glucose metabolism twice, once with the right cell phone activated but sound muted for 50 minutes - the "on" condition - and once with both cell phones deactivated - the "off" condition. The PET scans were compared to assess the effect of cell phone use on brain glucose metabolism.  The researchers found that whole-brain metabolism did not differ between the on and off conditions. But metabolism in the brain region closest to the antenna was approximately seven percent higher for cell phone on than for cell phone off power balance wholesale conditions.  The researchers say that the mechanisms by which radio frequency and electromagnetic fields, RF-EMFs, could affect brain glucose metabolism are "unclear."
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Mercredi 23 février 2011

In-App Purchases

The response (published by The Post) Mr. Market referred to was the letter from FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz, which said, “We fully share your concern that consumers, particularly children, are unlikely to understand the ramifications of these types of power balance purchases. Let me assure you we will look closely at the current industry practice with respect to the marketing and delivery of these types of applications.” Rep. Markey said in a statement that, “After the Washington Post first broke this story earlier this month, I sent the Federal Trade Commission a letter calling on the agency to investigate the issue of ‘in-app’ purchases and provide additional information about the promotion and delivery of these applications to consumers, especially with respect to children.” He added, “What may appear in these games to be virtual coins and prizes to children result in very real costs to parents. I am pleased that the FTC has responded, and as the use of mobile apps continues to increase, I will continue to actively monitor developments in this important area.” The U.S. Federal Trade Commission said it would be reviewing in-app purchases Tuesday. In a written response to Massachusetts Representative Ed Markey (D), FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz said that his shop online 2011 agency will be looking at the mobile apps industry as a whole following a Washington Post article highlighting parents who found themselves with big bills from Apple after their kids made many and more in-app purchases in iOS games.
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