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Today, I had the perfect class.

I had no technical issues. It was wonderful!

We are still working on TechnoWonderland. In today’s class we were completing the Session 1 Extension Activity, Amusement Park Map. The technology skills targeted in this lesson were copy, paste, group, and ungroup. The task had students use clip art as symbols to produce a theme park map that includes attractions, food court, entertainment, and services. In the last class, the network was sluggish and students struggled to insert clip art. Intermittently their machines would hang, which became a source of frustration.

But today was different.

When I walked into the computer lab that morning I was greeted with a pleasant sight. The “do not use” tag was removed from the out-of-commission computer in the back corner. ALL the computers were working in the lab. I breathed a sigh of relief. I didn’t have to hope that a student would be away sick so that I would have enough machines. (At one point this year I had three machines down).

The day just got better and better! All the students were able to login and none of the machines hung. The entire class was able to access the Internet with no freeze ups. Everyone was able to save their files AND no one lost work.

I NEVER heard, “Mrs. Love this isn’t working”. Not for 40 minutes! Instead, the only hands up in the air were for students that had questions directly related to the task.

The students were actively engaged for the entire class period. The noise level remained at a constant hum. There were no spikes in the volume, usually associated with a technical issue.

After class I chatted with my co-worker about how pleased I was that the class had been so productive and error-free. We both agreed that this is so rare for a technology education teacher. Typically, at one point during the class you are going to encounter the unexpected. Although some circumstances can be easily resolved, others can be quite puzzling.

I wasn’t the only person happy. One student commented on how smooth the computer lab was running. Shortly thereafter another student said, “Oh no, why did you say anything? You’ll jinx it!” I laughed! It turns out we all know how rare this moment can be.

I wish I could bottle this moment. It feels fantastic!

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Christa Love, Vice President - Christa Love has a passion for education and technology. A graduate from Brock University she has an Honors Bachelor of Arts in Child Development, Bachelor of Education in Primary and Junior divisions, and Masters of Education in the area of Curriculum Studies. Her work at TechnoKids Inc. began more than ten years ago as an instructor at a local learning center. Since that time she has operated the summer camp program, taught at the research and development center at John Knox Christian School, trained educators throughout the province on issues related to technology integration, and overseen the curriculum development of hundreds of technology projects. In recent years, Christa has become the vice president of TechnoKids Inc.


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Has Intel jumped the gun on quad-core computing? Well, it's certainly true that many of our benchmark results fail to demonstrate any benefit to quadcore CPUs.

In fact, it's clear that Intel's new Quad chips are actually slower for single and dual-threaded apps, both in outright terms and clock-forclock, than their dual-core rivals.

So, it's tempting to conclude that the QX6700 exists as a symbol of Intel's resurgence. Intel created it because it could, and AMD could not. Might it have been better to wait for better software support before rolling out quad-core chips?

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This being an Android handset, it naturally comes with a multitude of options for making contact. Straight out of the box, you're furnished with two email clients – the excellent Gmail client (even better in Ice Cream Sandwich than Gingerbread) which supports full inbox searching and labels and another LG client that can be used for other POP3/IMAP accounts and MS Exchange.

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We found the LG client to be usable and accessible. Holding it in portrait mode gave us our Exchange emails (with perfectly formatted HTML without us having to download images manually – a real bonus) and when turned to landscape, we got a split inbox view.

We loved how you can drag across to make the email list bigger or smaller. Other than that, it was not majorly different to any other email client. It did exactly what we needed it to.

The SMS/MMS client is stock Android with a bit of a colour wash over it. The actual composition of it was the same as that seen on the Samsung line and it's usable enough.

Personally, we'd download a third party one that gives you more options like Go SMS and also the ability to change themes. Despite LG's love of theming its homescreens, it won't allow any of that here.

Other than that, the beauty of Android is that you can download a whole host of IM clients and watch them seamlessly link into the OS. WhatsApp, LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Skype and the rest of them will actually integrate into your contacts once you get them on board and that helps make this a truly social platform.

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And you can launch a new message (of any variety) simply by opening the app or by going into your contact card and selecting one of the options in there. This is where we feel Apple really is playing catch up.

For typing your messages, it's all pretty good. The keyboard is much better than stock Android and we were really happy with it.

In both portrait and landscape, the letters are easy enough to hit and it supports elements like auto-punctuation, auto-capitalisation and adding a full stop when you hit the space bar twice.

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The only thing we couldn't figure out is handwriting recognition. In the settings menu, there were all kinds of options for changing the pen length and style and the sensitivity. But we couldn't figure out where to start writing – the message body didn't allow it and the keyboard isn't a Swype-style affair.

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turn off all security on the router and the mac mini connected. Then turn the security back on and it should no longer give you the connection timeout error. If that does not work remove the security passcode also, and then reboot!

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The battle of the smaller warriors is set to begin but we wonder if the Galaxy Tab 3 has enough in it to beat iPad Mini black and blue.

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On the last page of the face-off story, we weigh Tab 3’s Android 4.1 Jelly Bean against the iPad Mini’s iOS 6. The winner on this count is yet to be decided. As for the others——we want you to decide your camp.

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Eighty-three per cent of 23,376 Internet users surveyed worldwide say Internet access is important for freedom of expression

Affordable Internet access around the world should be a basic human right as it is essential for freedom of expression and economic opportunity, according to the results of a global survey released by the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI).

The survey was conducted by research company Ipsos with 23,376 Internet users in 24 countries between October 7 and November 12, 2014.

Research was conducted in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Egypt, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Poland, South Africa, South Korea, Sweden, Tunisia, Turkey and the United States.

According to the results, 83 per cent of users surveyed agreed that affordable access to the Internet should be a human right, while 81 per cent said the Internet is important for their economic future and livelihood.

CIGI global security & politics program director Fen Hampson said the results show how important the Internet has become for freedom of expression, social communication, knowledge and freedom of association.

“Right now, one third of the world's population is online but two-thirds of the world's population is not. Unless the rest of the world is brought online, a world of Internet ‘have and have-nots’ will not only contribute to income inequality, but also stifle the world’s full potential for prosperity and innovation,” he said in a statement.

The survey also asked Internet users about privacy and online monitoring.

According to the results, 74 per cent of users were concerned about private companies monitoring online activities and selling the information for commercial purposes.

Sixty-two per cent of respondents were concerned about government agencies from other countries monitoring their online activity, while 61 per cent were concerned about their government monitoring them online.

Turning to Internet governance, 64 per cent of users were concerned about governments censoring the Internet.

In contrast, 47 per cent of respondents said they would trust their own government to play an important role in running the Internet. However, 57 per cent of those surveyed would like to see a combined body of IT companies, engineers, non-government organisations and institutions that represent the interests of citizens play a role in running the Internet.

Meanwhile, 48 per cent of users believed their government did a good job of making sure the Internet in their country was safe and secure.

The survey also asked users about cyber security. According to the results, 72 per cent of respondents were concerned about institutions in their country being cyber-attacked by a foreign government or a terrorist organisation.

Meanwhile, 78 per cent were concerned about a criminal hacking into their personal bank accounts and 77 per cent of users were concerned about someone hacking into their online accounts and stealing personal information such as photos and private messages.

According to Hampson, these results highlight that there is a “gaping trust deficit” in the Internet as people around the world worry that their online identities and communications will be compromised or stolen by cyber criminals.

“Unless trust is restored in the Internet through creative governance innovations its real potential to promote human development and global prosperity will be severely compromised,” he said.

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When Hollywood directors want to simulate a shark attack they invariably go to Stuart Cove - a scuba diver who can rustle up a school of man-eaters quicker than you can say 'Jaws'. He takes Adam Higginbotham under the waves to meet his killer cast

There are two, three, then four of them. Five, seven, ten, and then... more than that. Gliding in from where delicate turquoise fades into darkness, where the visibility fails and the bottom drops sharply from 30ft to 6,000ft, the sharks idle by, swimming in long curves of languid disinterest.

Stuart Cove kneels alone on the sandy sea floor. One hand rests on a plastic crate filled with freshly chopped chunks of fish; in the other he holds a short steel spike, bound at one end with silver gaffer tape, for grip. The sharks circle him in lazy, elliptical, overlapping orbits, closing on the bait box, nuzzling it until he pushes them away.

When he opens the crate to spear the first piece - a silvery chunk of grouper the size of a man's hand - even more sharks appear in the water around us. By now there are perhaps 20 of them - caribbean reef sharks - the smallest 4ft, the largest 9ft from nose to tail. They crowd in, bumping him, forcing themselves beneath the arm he keeps braced against the box, circling and returning, snatching suddenly at the bait.

Up close, from two or three feet away, their eyes are yellow and black, with narrow pupils like a cat's. Fine ridges of muscle kink across their bodies as they turn towards the food. Twenty minutes later all the fish has gone, and the sharks drift away. Afterwards, on the surface, Cove changes over his scuba tank and eats a ham sandwich as he prepares for another dive. I ask him how he feels it went: the first feeding of the day.

'That was nice,' he says cheerfully. 'Nice and mellow.'

Stuart Cove is Hollywood's most famous and prolific shark wrangler, a solid, jovial man who refers to the world above the surface of the ocean as 'topside' and speaks with the gently lilting Caribbean accent of a Bahamian native.

There is a slight tremor in his hands, and his face and arms are red-brown and covered with tiny purple lesions, the result of recent preventative skin cancer treatment made necessary by 40 years' exposure to the sun. 'I look pretty,' he says drily, 'don't I?'

On a beautiful morning in early November he strides down the dock on New Providence Island in the Bahamas, where his fleet of dive boats is moored. He sips a cup of tea made with evaporated milk, and gamely poses for photographs with his pet parrot on his shoulder. He has the affable but distracted air of a slightly harried corporate executive: smiling and friendly, but with a distant look in his eye that suggests his mind may be elsewhere.

Cove is the owner of Stuart Cove's Aqua Adventures, the largest scuba-diving and watersports operation in the Bahamas. With separately branded scuba, snorkelling and underwater-photography wings, and a contract with the islands' newest resort complex - the colossal

2,300-room Atlantis - Cove's distinctive hot pink logo is ubiquitous around Nassau and nearby Paradise Island. His list of diving students includes Princes William and Harry, Robert Redford and an apparently somewhat reluctant Sean Connery.

('He's a golfer,' Cove says carefully, 'Not a diver.') The company is successful enough to make him reluctant to admit exactly how much money he makes. 'Could we just say multi-million dollar? How about that?' he asks, when I enquire about his annual turnover.

But outside the Bahamas Stuart Cove is better known for one specific part of his business. Over the past 25 years he has created some of Hollywood's most memorable underwater sequences. He's captured, manipulated and cajoled sharks into scenes where they appear as sleeping sharks, radio-controlled sharks and - naturally - giant, man-eating sharks. His body of work includes three James Bond films, one Jaws sequel and,

a few years ago, a television advertisement for a Japanese toothpaste which involved him getting a shark to hold still underwater while he scrubbed its teeth with a 5ft pink toothbrush. This summer Cove completed filming on Into the Blue, a remake of the 1970s undersea classic The Deep.

But the film that made him famous is Open Water, the sleeper hit of 2004 and the most remarkable shark-horror film of the past ten years. Made with practically no money and filmed on shop-bought digital video cameras, the film depicted a young couple stranded in the open ocean by a negligent dive operator - and then menaced by sharks.

What made the film notable was that it didn't use any stand-ins or effects. The two principal actors were actually filmed in the water with a school of feeding caribbean reef sharks. 'A lot of it wasn't acting. It was real fear. It should have been stunt people,' says Cove, who still hasn't seen the finished film. 'But they had no budget for that.'

The shark scenes were so frightening and so authentic that, earlier this year, the American magazine Entertainment Weekly included him on their list of the 100 most creative people in Hollywood.

A first-generation Bahamian whose parents came over from Newcastle in the early 1950s, Cove grew up in the sea. 'As youngsters,' he says, 'we had no television. So instead we'd go out, play in the water, go fishing.'

He did his first scuba dive in 1964, when he was five years old - so young that he now has no memory of it. He was ten when he saw his first shark. They terrified him: 'Our parents would always say, "Don't go too far out in the water. Don't go near that dark water, because the sharks'll get you."'

By 16 he was sufficiently experienced as a diver to become an instructor ('We used to chase the tourist girls - my pick-up line was, "Hey, you wanna go scuba diving?"') And in 1979, at 19, he began his education in the delicate art of shark-wrangling.

Having dropped out of university in Canada ('Pre-med. I'm the first male in five generations on my father's side of the family not to become a dentist') he found dive work on the filming of the underwater sequences for For Your Eyes Only, the first Bond film to be shot in the Bahamas since Thunderball in 1965.

The marine co-ordinators and stuntmen who created the show- stopping sub-aqua scenes in Thunderball had pioneered techniques for handling sharks in films, helping to establish the tiger shark as central casting's favourite man-eating predator.

Tiger sharks, which can grow up to 20ft long, are big and aggressive, widely renowned as among the most dangerous species on earth, frequently responsible for fatal attacks on humans.

But the Thunderball stuntmen had discovered that sharks have a metabolic quirk which makes it possible to manipulate them safely. When captured or placed under stress a tiger shark will initially struggle furiously but then become abruptly slack and enter a torpid phase from which it takes some time to recover.

During this period the shark can be released to swim along a specific course required for the shot; then it can be recaptured before it has swum far enough for its metabolism to return to normal. The reason sharks often seem to be lumbering, clumsy animals in films is because they're only half awake. In reality an attacking tiger shark would move so quickly you'd barely see it.

At 19 Cove was an experienced diver, but still utterly terrified of sharks. He had no idea, when he signed up to work on For Your Eyes Only, that he would be expected to work with tiger sharks. 'One day they said to us, "OK, this is how you do it. We have a shark-releaser holding the shark.

He's going to release the shark, the shark's going to do his thing and hopefully it's going to work out. And then we're going to have six of you guys out of frame and when you hear the camera stop rolling, if the shark comes to you, jump on its back. And just hold on to it.

" Then they turned to me and said, "OK, Stuart. You're one of the guys." And I'm thinking, "What? Are you out of your mind?" But then they said, "You'll get $150." And, well... as a teenager in 1979, that's a pile of money.' (Today, Cove charges around $10,000 for two to three days shooting with a tiger shark.)

So he took the money and made the dive. 'Honestly scared to death,' he says. 'I think I had diarrhoea and everything.' During the first take, the shark proved livelier than expected, evaded the stunt divers and escaped - much to Cove's relief. Embarking on a half-hearted pretence of looking for the lost animal, he was amazed to find it struggling furiously, trapped in a net at the perimeter of the set.

'So I go up and I grab it and it's trying to bite me, and then it relaxes like they said it would. I swim it back, and here I am, the little frickin' Bahamian boy who comes back with the shark. The hero who saved the whole day's shooting.'

After that, the divemasters made Cove one of the chief shark handlers on the film. He never told them he'd found the shark in the net.

The filming of For Your Eyes Only took four months and, as it went on, Cove gradually became less frightened of sharks. But there was one specific incident that permanently changed his perception of them. Twenty or so of the crew were working off a big boat, with divers in deep water baiting a long-line to catch a tiger shark, when one of the men shouted, 'Hammerhead!'

There was a great hammerhead shark sniffing around the bait on the line. And everyone on board who heard the shout jumped into the ocean - to get a better look at the exceptional animal they'd found. Cove was amazed. Before, when anyone around him had shouted about sharks, people had scrambled out of the water. Now, for the first time, he heard someone yell 'Shark!' and everyone jumped in. 'And so, all of a sudden,' he says, 'the fear of sharks kind of went away.'

Out at the dive site I ask Stuart Cove what I should do if I'm actually attacked by one of the sharks he's feeding. 'If you are bitten, just take your arms in and lie still,' he says. 'Don't pull their tails.

If they're coming too close, punch them in the nose. If that doesn't work, poke them in the eye with your stump... I'm just kidding. Don't punch them. I've been diving with sharks for 20 years. You build up a repertoire of very bad jokes.'

On the bench beside him Chris - a Frenchman from the Cote d'Azur who is one of Cove's six regular shark feeders, and a stunt diver on the company's film projects - has gathered his equipment. He has

a battered-looking plastic ice-hockey helmet and a pair of dive fins that bear the marks of previous encounters with sharks. 'See,' he says. 'Some pretty cool bites. Here, and here.' He holds the black rubber this way and that, bending it to show the crescents of tiny lacerations over the foot and in the ends of the fins.

He unpacks the protective gloves for the feeding: two 4ft gauntlets knitted from a fine chain-mail, secured by straps around the neck. The gauntlets and the chain-mail full-body suits that the shark feeders generally use with them are now specially made by a company in New Jersey.

When they first started diving with sharks Stuart Cove simply used steel-mesh butcher's gloves, designed to protect the hands from being cut while chopping meat.

In fact, being bitten by one of these sharks is very unlikely. Cove has been feeding the caribbean reef sharks of New Providence Island since 1985, and, gradually, they've become something approaching tame. 'As tame,' he says, 'as a wild shark can be.

We learnt to interact with them, and they learnt to interact with us.' Now, he's careful to avoid a feeding frenzy; he keeps fresh blood and live, panicking fish out of the water.

And despite their reputation, many species of shark are very discerning eaters. Caribbean reef sharks are dangerous, but less aggressive than tiger sharks and, on different documentary projects, Cove's tried feeding them chicken, leg of lamb, lobster, even on one occasion a dead rat.

Each time, a shark has taken the bait into its mouth, tasted it and then forcefully spat it out. He's even seen them reject fish if it's been sitting around on the dock too long. Divers are the same: when the shark-

feeders' gloved and mailed hands are accidentally bitten, the animals immediately realise their mistake when they taste a wetsuit. 'They just go once, twice,' says Chris, 'then they feel the neoprene and let go.'

Even so, Cove himself has been bitten three times by sharks. Once he was bitten on the hand. He wasn't wearing gloves. 'They go very deep, the teeth. It's the worst pain I've ever felt. It bit into the knuckles. Hurt like a sonofabitch.'

Another time, as he was snorkelling and baiting the water for a photo shoot, a shark came at him. Unprotected, he could do nothing but roll away from it. It chewed its way up his back. Still, he somehow got away with only minor injuries.

Cove's most serious attack came three years ago, during filming for the Imax film Ocean Men. As he broke up bait underwater with his hands, a piece of fish landed on the top of his head. A shark came in for it and raked down his scalp, filling the water around him with blood.

He dropped the remaining bait to cover his head, and ten or 20 more sharks immediately closed in on the food. Everyone else in the scene saw Stuart disappear in a frenzy of sharks and blood. They assumed he was being eaten alive. 'It was,' he says, 'quite humorous. But it went right down to the skull. That really hurts - I was scalped.'

Still, Cove insists that each time he's been bitten he has been doing all the things for the camera you shouldn't do: waving his hands around in the water unprotected. 'Hamming it up,' he says. 'Pushing the envelope, just being an ass, really. But that's why we get the big bucks for doing it, too.'

For some shoots Cove and his staff have even simulated shark attacks - strapping bait between a chain-mail suit and their clothing and having sharks tear it off them.

'That's dangerous because they can actually rip your wetsuit and flesh and cause internal damage... Yeah, it's not smart. But you know,' he says. 'Fame and fortune. You'll do anything.'

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Markets and euro suffer as investors lose patience with Europe's leaders

Traders placed heavy bets against the euro on Wednesday in an alarming sign that patience with the glacial political process is running out.

Traders placed heavy bets against the euro on Wednesday in an alarming sign that patience with the glacial political process is running out.
Northern League Senators hold up placards reading: "Stop Taxes, Hands off pensions, This austerity package it's a robbery" , as Italian Premier Mario Monti addresses the Senate in Rome on Wednesday. Photo: AP

The euro plunged through the psychologically-important $1.30 level for the first time in almost a year, raising fears of another crisis less than a week after the last "make-or-break" European Union leaders' summit.

Equity, bond and commodity markets were rattled while the tensions were reflected at an Italian bond auction. Rome, where Mario Monti has already been forced to water down his "Save Italy" measures, had to offer 6.47pc yield to raise €3bn (£2.5bn) of five-year bonds - much higher than 6.29pc it paid two weeks ago.

Angus Campbell, head of sales at Capital Spreads, said: "Political leaders and central bankers seem to have got stuck in a quagmire of indecision so as a result financial markets gave up on their lack of resolve today...the prospect of a full-scale European sovereign debt melt down in the near future became more of a reality."

The Stoxx Europe 600 index fell 2.1pc, the French CAC slumped 3.3pc and the German DAX was off 1.7pc. In London the FTSE 100 fell 2.3pc. Gold plunged below €1,600 to its lowest level since July. Sterling hit a nine-month high against the euro.

Strong demand for safe havens saw banks' dollar borrowing triple at the European Central Bank's (ECB) weekly loan offering. A total of 12 banks used the ECB's seven-day dollar swap line, borrowing $5.1bn - three times the $1.6bn level last week.

But in Berlin there were no signs of the paymaster relenting under pressure. Angela Merkel insisted that Europe could overcome the crisis with "patience" and the Brussels plans for fiscal union.

Jens Weidmann, head of the Bundesbank and member of the ECB, quashed residual hopes for ECB intervention. He said it was "astonishing" people think market confidence will be won by "breaking the rules".

Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the Euro Group warned: "If the euro falls – and it won't – then the entire European unification project is at risk."

But fresh data showed that Japan bought 13pc of €300m of European Financial Stability Fund (EFSF) bonds at a recent auction raising hopes for help from Asia.

David Cameron also ruled out the UK making an extra €30bn contribution to the International Monetary Fund to bail-out countries hurt by the financial crisis, including the eurozone.

The Prime Minister's office said it did not expect Britain to contribute more than an extra £10bn and said money from the international community should not be an alternative to the euro area tackling its own problems.

The suggestion that Britain could be on the hook for a greater contribution arose after last week's EU summit, when leaders said they would contribute an extra €200bn to the IMF to be used for eurozone bail-outs, with €150bn coming from the eur nations and the remainder coming from the remaining 10 EU countries.

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Neil Woodford's Invesco legacy: buy and hold works

Woodford's decision to quit Invesco Perpetual has focused discussion on long-term investing

Celebrity standouts: Neil Woodford of Invesco Perpetual Income and High Income funds
Celebrity standouts: Neil Woodford of Invesco Perpetual Income and High Income funds Photo: Justin Sutcliffe

How long do you give a fund manager to prove his worth? After what period of disappointing performance do you say that’s it, and move your money elsewhere?

Quite a long time, is the conclusion you might reach after looking at the career of Neil Woodford, one of the UK’s most celebrated fund managers. Three years, at least, maybe much more.

The one over-riding strength of Neil Woodford, who’s retirement from his current job we cover in detail on pages 2-3, is that he stuck to his guns. That explains why over the very long term - ten years plus - he has outperformed his peers and the market so spectacularly. But it also explains why over many shorter periods, typically of three years or less, he has disappointed.

Mr Woodford’s history shows how difficult it is to remain faithful to an investment discipline. There is an endless barrage of information for fund managers to absorb, act up on or dismiss - and there are investors worrying about their money on the one hand, and marketing people worrying about performance data on another.

I had a memorable conversation with Mr Woodford exactly a decade ago at the bottom of the stock market slump. The FTSE had plunged 53pc from a peak of nearly 7,000 in early 2000 - the pinnacle of the bubble - to under 3,300 in March 2003.

Mr Woodford hadn’t participated in the technology frenzy that gripped the late Nineties. He had religiously stuck to his principles of buying companies with dependable cash generation, low levels of debt and strong prospects of earnings growth.

But at a time when the rest of the market placed huge values on businesses yet to earn any revenues - let alone post profits - Mr Woodford’s fuddy-duddy views were laughed out of court. In 1999, the wildest of the years, his funds returned 5pc. Rival funds, whose managers had been more-or-less sucked into the mania, returned closer to 20pc and the FTSE was up by almost 30pc in 12 months. Technology-focused indices like the Nasdaq rocketed 50pc or more.

Mr Woodford was viewed as out of touch to the point of lunacy. By “obsessing” with earnings and thus hoarding “dirty”, “old-order” stocks like energy producers and cigarette manufacturers, he was blind to the “new world paradigm” being unleashed by the revolution of the internet, his then detractors claimed.

Other fund managers were taking in billions of pounds of new money - Mr Woodford got none. His clients were unhappy: they were viewed as idiots for sticking with him. And his bosses at Invesco were also unhappy: they very nearly sacked him.

By 2003 - after the spectacular, three-year stock market rout which proved him right - he recalled what that period was like. He went to bed each night wondering whether he was the only sane person in the world, he recalled, or whether he had indeed lost the plot. “I was under huge pressure and experienced a lost of antagonism”, he said.

Mr Woodford gives as his reason for quitting Invesco and setting up on his own, which he will do after April 2014, his hope to start an investment business focused on long-term returns. This approach to share ownership is gaining traction. New asset managers such as Terry Smith today make virtues out of the proven (if, according to some, boring) strategy of buy and hold. It is low-cost, for one thing, as less trading is involved. And it is generally more resistant to the dangerous fads that can carry away the wider market.

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Bill of Rights: 'Why I fear this will prove I was right to be worried'

As the Commission on a Bill of Rights prepares to reveal it's findings, former member Michael Pinto-Duschinsky expects disappointing and vague report.

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Sources close to Mr Grayling said that he was ready to make a 'very clear intervention' which would propose 'major changes' to Britain’s human rights regime  Photo: EPA

This Tuesday, at 11am, a report which should have been of even greater significance than Lord Justice Leveson’s work on press regulation will be published. The Commission on a Bill of Rights will finally reveal its findings after a troubled 20 months of existence.

Day by day, reports of judgments on everything from anti-terrorist measures, to immigration issues, prisoner voting or the reporting rights of the media versus personal privacy show the all-pervasive influence of the current human rights system introduced in 1998.

When he announced the creation of the commission, David Cameron told the House of Commons that its aim would be to ensure that, on general political matters such as prisoner voting rights, decisions could again be made in Parliament and not in the courts.

I resigned from the commission last March, having written a memorandum titled “The Future of the Commission on a Bill of Rights: Some Serious Causes of Concern”. By then, it was clear that the commission would barely discuss the Prime Minister's central concern. We will know on Tuesday whether my concerns were justified.

Several of my former colleagues on the commission have warned me not to hold my breath and to expect a disappointing and vague report.

In the manner of a former Whitehall mandarin, the chairman of the commission, Sir Leigh Lewis, was prepared to sacrifice substance in the interest of a show of unity between the four Cameron appointees and the four Clegg appointees In the event, that sacrifice was in vain. Members have found it difficult to agree on the vaguest of recommendations.

If the commission makes a majority recommendation, as seems likely, that there should in principle be a new British Bill of Rights, the report may do little more than set out options as to the contents. Indeed, such a Bill may merely replicate the rights already contained in the Human Rights Act of 1998, albeit possibly in slightly different wording, a new title, and with rhetorical references to British historical traditions – Magna Carta and all that.

Even if there is a different British Bill of Rights, people in the UK will still be able to take cases to the Strasbourg court under the terms of the European Convention on Human Rights, unless, of course, the UK alters its relationship with that international court.

At the behest of its Civil Service leadership, the commission made two basic errors. The first was to do too little work. Even if it could not hope to reach meaningful agreement, it surely would have helped to create understanding of the issues at stake had there been public hearings and research by leading scholars (rather than low-paid graduate students).

The second mistake was to take its terms of reference too literally. These reflected the wording of the Coalition agreement of May 2010 and were seen as severely limiting the scope of inquiry.

But a rapidly formulated, behind-the-scenes set of negotiations between small groups of party leaders can never hope to anticipate and decide all future issues for a complete five-year Parliament. When Mr Cameron told the Commons that he expected the commission to bring forward proposals to restore parliamentary sovereignty, he was saying something that technically went beyond the Coalition agreement. Thus his wishes were largely ignored by the commission.

Yet it is vital to discuss who should have the final say on matters of policy governed by a Bill of Rights; should it be British judges? Should it be judges of the 47-nation European Court of Human Rights at Strasbourg? Or, in the last resort, should it be the British Parliament?

Since most of the political controversy has not been about the rights contained in the European Convention on Human Rights, but about responsibility for deciding what those rights mean, neglect of the core issue of jurisdiction and the refusal to take seriously the concerns of the vast majority of MPs has made the work of the commission an exercise in futility.

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Who was Wilbur Scoville? The science behind what makes chillies so hot

The inventor of the Scoville test has been commemorated with a Google Doodle on his 151st birthday

Hot chilli peppers have been credited with helping to lose weight, inducing labour and relieving pain. But until Wilbur Scoville, there was no objective way of measuring how hot chillies really are.

Scoville, an American chemist born 151 years ago on Friday, is responsible for the "Scoville organoleptic test", a scale of "hotness" that has been the definitive rating of how spicy a chilli is for more than 100 years.

On his birthday, Google has saluted Scoville with an interactive Doodle that asks visitors to assist his experiments by cooling the chillies' heat.

By clicking the mouse at the correct point on a sliding bar, you can fire ice cream at the offending chilli to neutralise it, with the game getting more difficult as they get hotter.

The Scoville scale, which measures the concentration of capsaicin - the active component that gives chillies their hotness - runs from the bell pepper, with a rating of zero Scoville heat units (or SHU), to the 16 million that represents pure capsaicin.

Capsaicin is the compound that gives you the characteristic burning sensation in your mouth, when you eat chillies.

The hottest chillies, such as the Carolina Reaper and Trinidad Moruga, can reach around 2 million SHU, and many of these have only been discovered in recent years. Just nine years ago, the Bhut Jolokia was the first to pass one million SHU. Tabasco sauce sits at 1200-1500, while the Jalapeno is at just 2,500-5,000. The Cayenne pepper is between 30,000 and 50,000.

The big chilli sauce guide

Although the hottest chillies would be extremely uncomfortable to eat, and could theoretically kill you if you ate enough, the extreme agony would stop you before it did.

So why do we eat spicy food? Studies have shown it could be genetic, and sometimes correlates to enjoying other adrenaline-filled activities like gambling.

Delicious spicy recipes

How are Scoville heat units measured?

Capsaicin, which itself produces a burning sensation when in contact with any tissue, is measured in the Scoville organoleptic test by dissolving chilli in alcohol to extract capsaicin oil before it is diluted in sugar water.

A panel of five is then asked if they can detect any heat when drinking the mixture. If they can, the mixture is diluted again until three of the five cannot detect any hotness.

Scoville heat units are a measure of how many times the mixture has had to be diluted so that heat can't be detected. Every time the mixture is diluted, the SHU increases, so for hotter chillies, it must be diluted many times for no heat to be detected.

The test was invented in 1912 and has remained the barometer for hotness ever since.

Scoville himself was born in 1865 in Bridgeport, Connecticut.

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Love of Two Poles – KB Part-15

Love of two poles

In delhi

“can I meet Mrs.pragya mehra” abhi asked the receptionist

“but sir may I know who you are to her” the receptionist asked him.

“I….I am her husband” abhi replied and the receptionist called her and he was waiting for her eagerly in her cabin.

” enough pragya I don’t know how much you hate me but I love you 1000times more that your hatred” he said while she didn’t seem to have any interest on him.

“please try to understand pragya that day…that day I didn’t do it knowingly it was only because of that raj he was the one who pushed auntiji”

“Buzz buzz” she stopped him “don’t try to give me any explanations because of you I lost my mom I will not forgive you for that ever and i just hate you…hate you..just hate u” she cried

“so you hate me so you don’t have any feelings for me” he asked and moved forward and she knew what will be his next Move.

“Abhishek just stay away me” she warned but abhi Seemed like a deaf and moved towards her finally she hit on the glass wall

“tell me you don’t have any feelings for me” he nuzzled her face and his arms were strong either side of her’s to protect her from escaping

“leav….leave me abhishek this is my office”
she said

“why should I leave you after all i am your husband your child’s father, tell me my closeness is not affecting you tell me your heart beat doesn’t raise with my touch tell me pragya tell me” abhi said and kissed all over a her face a lonely tear from her eye escaped she completely lost in him suddenly he stopped then pragya slowly opened her eyes and saw abhi who was furious he had tears in his eyes.

he came closer to her and held her arms “I am dying without you fuggy i am dying please give me a chance to justify me please my love for you is true trust me ” abhi said and Pragya saw is eyes and started speaking “How can I trust you abhishek you broke my trust 3 years back itself you know right how much i loved you l threw my whole family for you and what you did you killed my maa everybody asked me why I loved you why I loved a rowdy but that time my love for you made me blind I gave myself to you I gave my everything you know abhi after parting away from you I thought I could forget you with time but you gave your memories with adi whenever I see him I could only remember you I have cried each and everytime seeing u in him”

“pragya we can’t seprate from each other as adi will there to Bind us he is our love’s meaning even today I can remember those day which we had spent with adi” abhi said and pragya seemed to melt

“Abhishek it is over our love story came to an end we can build it anymore” pragya said

“kya our love is over” abhi pressed her arms hardly “I love u and I know you love me and if u lie to me telling you don’t love me I won’t spare u” abhi said in anger

“the truth is Mr.Abhishek Mehra that I don’t love you anymore” she said

“so you don’t love me any more right of fine Ms.pragya arora I want my son back okay fine if you don’t have any relationship with me leave it but i cant give my fatherly rights to anybody” he said with furious eyes and pragya started having tears and soon he left the place.

abhi while driving back drove into their past memories.
after’s adi birth their life turned to be very beautiful he was just 5 days old and abhi took pragya and their new to their house.the house was happy seeing them but still sarla didn’t talk to pragya.

In their room

it was late night and abhi didn’t reach home so she panicked and called him but it was not reachable adi was also crying a lot so she was patching him up.

“arrey mera bacho kya hau? mumma is here only na then why my baby is crying ale ale” pragya was trying to calm him so just made him lie In her shoulder.just then abhi entered.

“Abhishek is this the time you will come home” she asked angrily and adi was slowly calming down.

“sorry fuggy I had a work why you didn’t sleep yet” he enquired

“hmm what to do my son is just like his papa always troubling his mumma” pragya said and abhi came and sat near her.

“let him torture you I am really happy” abhi said

“okay Abhishek have him for few minutes I will change my dress” pragya said and moved the baby to his hand

“no no fuggy i can’t hold he is too small” abhi protested

“Abhishek come hold him for few min I will come” pragya said but abhi didn’t seem to be convinced

“Abhishek do you know which is the most safest please in this world….its our father’s arms i never got a chance to feel that protection please don’t make my baby too in that same situation I was in he needs his father’s hand to protect him” pragya had tears in her eyes abhi without arguing took adi in his arms and he kissed pragya’s head.

his thoughts were broked by his phone and it was tanu.

“hello tanu what’s up”

“what abhi you seem to be happy”

“yes I am”

“what special today”

“I met my wife”

tanu voice faded “where,how did she accepted you”

“you know tanu she is a the most egoist person I have ever met so it takes sometime okay okay bye I have some important work i will call u later” abhi droped the phone

adi run and hugged pragya’s waist. “mumma….where is my chocho chip” he bumped and pragya was worried about abhi and adi pulled her drape then she noticed him and too him in her arms

“hmm mumma brought you first you take bath then I will give u” she said

“okay” he kissed her cheeks and she to kissed him back.

pragya went to her room and opened her cupboard and took a photo where abhi puting his arms in pragya’s tummy while she was pregnant.she clutched it to her chest

“why you came back abhishek I am scared of losing myself to you” she cried.

abhigya is United but will tanu’s evil eye seprate them.

  1. nasima

    omg..i cant believe it that u will upload ur story now…asususal very nice and emotional…pls update next epi. so soon…u took so much days..i eagerly waiting for nxt…pls ths time u will update nxt part so soon…it my kind request….

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    Thank god that u r back I am eagerly waiting for u …..& superbb yarrr…………eargley waiting for next update

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    Wow…. wow…. you came back with rocking……… Episode really i loved it to the core. I don’t know how much time i commented you but really i will read your episode. Plz forgive me for my irregular comment. It is bcoz of my idiot school. I waited for this moment for a longggggg……. time. Thank you so much for giving special special special….. Episode. Be ready to wet in my love. Love you a lotttttt loads of huggggggs and kisses to u ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

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    Ohh darlu i died without tis ff pps update regular atleast update and end soon so tat u can concentrate on ur othr ff lovely epi darlu love u loads😍😘😘😘😘😘😘

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In the Middle Ages, the bandit Irongron and his aide Bloodaxe together with their rabble of criminals find the crashed spaceship of a Sontaran warrior named Linx. The alien claims Earth for his Empire then sets about repairing his ship, offering Irongron “magic weapons” that will make him a king in return for shelter. They strike a bargain, though Irongron remains suspicious.

The Doctor and Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart are investigating the disappearance of several scientists from a top secret scientific research complex. They do not know Linx has used an Osmic Projector to send himself forward eight hundred years and has kidnapped the scientists then hypnotized them into making repairs on his ship. The Projector only lets him appear in another time for a brief period. While the Doctor investigates he meets an eccentric scientist called Rubeish and a young journalist called Sarah Jane Smith, who has infiltrated the complex by masquerading as her aunt. Later that evening Rubeish disappears and the Doctor uses the data he has gathered to pilot the TARDIS back to the Middle Ages, not realising new companion Sarah has stowed away on board.

Irongron has stolen his castle from an absent nobleman, and relations with his neighbours are appalling. Indeed, the mild Lord Edward of Wessex has been provoked into building an alliance against him and, when this is slow in developing, sends his archer Hal on an unsuccessful mission to kill Irongron. The robber baron is in a foul mood when a captured Sarah is brought before him. His mood improves when Linx presents him with a robot knight which is then put to the test on a captured Hal. The archer is only saved when the Doctor intervenes from afar, shooting the robot control box from Irongron’s hands. The ensuing confusion lets both Hal and Sarah flee, and they head for Wessex Castle.

Meanwhile the Doctor has realised both that Sarah is in the time period and has been captured, and also that she previously supposed him to be in league with Irongron. The next morning the robber baron and his troops assault the castle using rifles supplied by Linx but the attack is repelled by the Doctor’s cunning. The failure further sours the relationship between Linx and Irongron, which has deteriorated since the robot knight fiasco and the point at which the robber saw the Sontaran’s true visage beneath his helmet.

The Doctor now decides to lead an attack on Irongron’s castle, and he and Sarah enter dressed as friars. He makes contact with Rubeish and finds the human scientists in a state of extreme exhaustion. Linx catches the Doctor in the laboratory once more, but this time is rendered immobile when a lucky strike from Rubeish hits his probic vent – a Sontaran refuelling point on the back of their necks which is also their main weakness. Rubeish and the Doctor use the Osmic Projector to send the scientists back to the twentieth century. Sarah now invites herself into Irongron’s kitchen, using the opportunity to drug the food, thereby knocking out Irongron’s men.

A recovered Linx now determines his ship is repaired enough to effect a departure. Once more he encounters the Doctor, and they wrestle in combat. A crazed and half drugged Irongron arrives and accuses Linx of betraying him: the Sontaran responds by killing him. As Linx enters his spherical vessel Hal arrives and shoots him in the probic vent, and the Sontaran warrior falls dead over his controls, triggering the launch mechanism. Knowing the place is about to explode when the shuttle takes off, Bloodaxe awakes and rouses the remaining men and tells them to flee, while the Doctor hurries the last of his allies out of the castle. It explodes moments before the Doctor and Sarah depart in the TARDIS.

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Trion also added its new International shards feature, allowing players to in any language regardless of the region. Read all about this and more in the official 2.5 patch notes.

Get ready for the holidays as RIFTs Grandfather Frost makes his return on November 13th to unveil a new level 60 instance version.

Starting Nov. 13, Grandfather Frost unveils a new Level-60 version of a favorite Telaran instance every week, including community-choice Return to Deepstrike, a completely new adventure into the heart of Stonefield.

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AOL Determined to Suck Even More!

AOL seems to be determined to implement their email tax scheme. As if they didn’t suck already… If people didn’t see a reason to quit this shitty ISP before, this should be a good incentive.

My dad used to used to give his AOL email to his customers. He doesn’t really have a need a professional email account or anything but he likes to be reachable that way. I’m concerned he might miss important emails due to the whole AOL tax issue. I’m considering setting him up with gmail or something like that.

I should probably set him up a domain, so that he can have a professionally sounding email for business use. The bottom line however is, that we can’t trust AOL anymore.

Btw, go and sign the open letter to aol. They already said they don’t give a shit about it, but hey… It can’t hurt, can it?

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Teijin Develops New Masterbatch Flame Retardant With High Transparency And Colorability For Textile Manufacturing

TOKYO, Japan — May 23, 2016 — Teijin Ltd. announced today that it has developed a new masterbatch flame retardant that combines Teijin’s phosphorus flame retardant FCX-210 with a polymer for use on fiber as well as resin. This granular type enables textile manufacturers to impart superior heat resistance to a wide range of products without the need to construct a dedicated facility or to add traditional flame retardants to raw materials in advance.

Launched in 2013, FCX-210 lends high flame retardancy to a broad range of plastics without losing any of its flame resistance or changing the original characteristics of the plastic. Additionally, only a relatively small amount is necessary. OEM production began in Taiwan in 2014, and FCX-210 has since been widely adopted for electronics and automobiles parts.

Additionally, FCX-210 is a halogen-free product, making it safer for end-users and more environmentally friendly.

The new masterbatch FCX-210 will bring those same strengths to textile manufacturing, as well as the world’s highest transparency for unmatched colorability. Moreover, unlike traditional phosphorus flame retardants, FCX-210 is insoluble, that realizes easier draining process.

Teijin has begun supplying samples to expand applications for FCX-210 into interior products such as curtains, carpets and wallpapers, which require high heat resistance. Teijin expects revenue from FCX-210 to reach 2 billion JPY ($21.9 million) by 2020.

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State Department all a-Twitter over WikiLeaks

  • The US State Department (aka the Foggy Bottom) is all a-Twitter over the imminent release of approximately three million classified documents obtained by WikiLeaks.

    According to The Hill, the impending data dump is expected to include "sensitive" diplomatic cables that could harm foreign relations with a number of important US allies.

    "Across the State Department, senior officials are reaching out to countries and warning them about a possible release of documents," State Department spokesperson P.J. Crowley tweeted on Friday night.

    "[As such], #SecClinton reached out to leaders in Germany, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Britain, France and Afghanistan regarding WikiLeaks."

    Earlier, Crowley had warned WikiLeaks that its actions would "put [US] national interests at risk" and cause "tension" with worldwide partners.

    "[So we have talked with] members of the Hill to let them know what we are prepared for."

    Meanwhile, Reuters reports that politicians from a number of regions - including Russia, Afghanistan, FSU republics, Central Asia and Europe - are "prominently" featured in the classified documents.

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India to join missing Panamanian vessel probe

March 3rd, 2008 - 8:32 pm ICT by admin

Mumbai, March 3 (ANI): India will join an international investigation into the missing of a Panamanian cargo vessel carrying 25 Indian crewmembers in the Black sea while on its way to Turkey from Russia, as search and rescue operation entered the third week on Monday.

An officer is being sent for the purpose after MV Rezzak, registered in Panama, went missing in the high seas on February 18, an official said here today.

“Panama and India are expediting the investigation process. The investigating members of both the involved maritime states are processing their visa/travel formalities and soon shall be proceeding to Turkey,” Deepak Kapoor, an official in the Directorate General (Shipping) said in a statement.

The investigation is expected to take place in Panama since the ship is registered there. Since the missing crew involves Indians, one person can be nominated to be part of the probe proceedings as per international law.

MV Rezzak carrying 25 Indian crew and steel billets as cargo left Russia for Turkey on February 17, a 24-hour voyage. Next day, the vessel with the crew went missing and there was no distress call, Kapoor said.

A Turkish national owns the vessel. Mumbai-based Pelican Marine recruited the crew for MV Rezzak. Turkish authorities are carrying out the search and rescue operation.

The search and rescue team has found a punctured life raft, life jackets, synthetic tarpaulins, gas cylinders, sea survival kit, life buoys and lifeboats of Rezzak, Kapoor said.

However there was no trace of the crew, he added.

The Turkish ship was equipped with an automatic identification system, but this was not in use/switched off mode when it left Russia, the statement said. (ANI)

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Remains of Kushan City discovered near Manshera

November 16th, 2007 - 5:37 pm ICT by admin

Peshawar, Nov 16 (ANI): A team of archaeologists led by Vice Chancellor of the Hazara University Professor Ihsan Ali has discovered the remains of one of the largest Kushan city sites in Chittar Kot, Mansehra district of the NWFP.
The site Chittar Kot is located on a high spur overlooking the Biran River, offering one of the most spectacular views of the river and the surrounding area, a press release stated.
The site is located at 34″ 22.356′ N and 73″ 08.214′ E at an elevation of 945 meters from mean sea level in a pine forest in the Mansehra district.
The site was earlier spotted by Abdul Hameed and Muhammad Ashfaq of the Hazara Cultural Museum during a survey of archaeological sites in Mansehra.
The name Chittar Kot is derived from the word Chittra meaning an umbrella or an elevated place represents a large Kushan settlement site, protected by a similar defensive structure on the west and the exposed structure spreading over a mile on the steep hill.
The strategic location of the site warranted an effective control of the surrounding area from all four directions, and thus could have been of multi-faceted defensive settlement, with far-reaching consequences for the establishment of cultural profile of Mansehra district.
It gives an unhindered view of the present settlements of Nawa-Shehr, Kherian and Bhir Khund, The News reported.
This excavation will also provide extensive material to the newly established Hazara Cultural Museum at the Hazara University and will shed new light on the people of the area living 2,000 years ago. (ANI)

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Sledging Pietersen may prove very costly for South Africa: Cook

July 10th, 2008 - 1:34 pm ICT by ANI

London, July 10 (ANI): England opener Alastair Cook has told South Africa that there is no point winding up Kevin Pietersen — he will only get revenge with the bat.

Pietersen has been criticised by South African players and fans ever since his cricketing defection to England in 2004.

That abuse has continued right through to the current Test series, with Proteas captain Graeme Smith stating that he is still target No1 for his side.

But so far eight one-dayers against his country of birth (South Africa) has seen Pietersen hit three centuries.

And having produced the goods in those high-pressure games, Cook believes it can only be easier in the Test arena.

None of the players take too much notice of what is said before a Test series. I know I dont. All the talking stops when we walk out at Lords. A great series starts in which we hope to come out victorious, The Sun quoted cook, as saying.

I imagine its very strange for Pietersen playing against his country of birth. He has a great record against them in one-dayers and Ive got no doubts he will continue that in the Tests, he said.

KP played against South Africa before in front of a hostile home crowd - and his reply was a bucketful of runs, Cook added.

The first Test between England and South Africa starts today at Lords. (ANI)

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Sisters tie the knot with brothers on the same day

May 5th, 2009 - 5:18 pm ICT by ANI

London, May 5 (ANI): Two sisters tied the knot with two brothers on the same day at St Christopher’s Church in Winfrith, Dorset.

Kerry Hamilton, 27, and Sonny Mabey, 30, met 10 years ago on a night out and subsequently introduced their younger siblings Laura, 24 and Wayne, 27, to each other.

Both the couples live under the same roof and decided to have the same wedding day.

“We have always got on so well and a joint wedding seemed like a natural choice,” the Telegraph quoted Kerry as saying.

“No one has fallen out or disagreed with anything to do with the wedding. We have not had one quibble,” she added.

The four are now headed to Scotland for their honeymoon. (ANI)

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Published: Friday, April 20, 2001, 23:53 [IST]
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 Sydney: Cricket authorities are expected to expand the number of random drug tests after fast bowler Duncan Spencer received an 18-month ban in the first doping case in the sport in Australia.

Spencer admitted on Thursday that he had taken Nandrolone to help his recovery from a back injury that had kept him out of cricket since 1994.

The 29-year-old tested positive in a random drugs control following Western Australia's Mercantile Mutual Cup One-day final defeat to New South Wales in Sydney in February.

"These injections were prescribed to me to improve my everyday life as I was suffering from chronic pain that I had been suffering for the last six years," Spencer said.

"The medication was not prescribed for sport, at that time I did not believe I would be able to bowl again, let alone at the first class level."

The ACB's anti-doping committee, chaired by Justice William Gerard of the Victorian State Supreme Court and including Dr Susan White of the Australian Sports Drug Medical Advisory Committee and Justice Glen Williams from the Queensland State Court of Appeal, obviously took that into account as they could have banned him for two years.

Now he will only miss the next Australian summer of cricket. But ACB spokesman Brendan McClements hinted the Board might test more players in future.

"It may well be that we need to look at increasing the number of tests," he said. The ACB has tested 199 players since 1998.

Spencer was born in England but moved to Australia as a five-year-old. He played two first class games for Kent in 1993 and four county games in 1994. He played for Western Australia in the same period until his back injury forced him out at a time when he was considered a potential Test player.

"No sport would be pleased that one of its players had been found guilty of this type of offence but I am reassured by the fact that this player was identified and dealt with quickly through the ACB's testing programme and anti-doping procedures," ACB chief executive Malcolm Speed said after the hearing.

"This decision sends the clear message that cricket will not tolerate any player taking prohibited substances and will move swiftly to deal with any person found to have breached the ACB's anti-doping policy."

Nandrolone is an anabolic steroid used to boost muscles and to increase strength and power. It also speeds up recovery time after injury, allowing users to train harder.

The drug can stay in the body for up to 12 months.

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Chennai set a target of 165 for Kolkata

Published: Tuesday, March 16, 2010, 19:38 [IST]
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Chennai set a target of 165 for Kolkata

Kolkata: A superb knock from Dhoni and Badrinath helps Chennai Super Kings to post a healthy total of 164 for the loss of 3 wickets here on Tuesday at Kolkata.

Dhoni (33 ball 66) and Badrinath (33 ball 43) were the contributors.

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Kolkata Knight Riders Team: BJ Hodge, MK Tiwary, SC Ganguly (c), OA Shah, RS Gavaskar, AD Mathews, LR Shukla, WP Saha (w), M Kartik, SE Bond, I Sharma

Chennai Super Kings Team: M Vijay, ML Hayden, SK Raina, S Badrinath, JM Kemp, MS Dhoni (c), JA Morkel, R Ashwin, L Balaji, M Muralitharan, MS Gony

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Rage Against The Media

December 03, 2010

Radia tapes and WikiLeaks - where is the media heading?

Recently India witnessed two issues where the ethics and integrity of political journalism was called into question.

The first was the Radia tapes affair where a corporate Public Relations Officer (PRO) was witnessed speaking to Barkha Dutt, Vir Sanghvi and many other prominent editors of Indian media. The topic of discussion was DMK's role in formation of the Congress led government in 2009. The Corporate PRO, representing Ratan Tata and Mukesh Ambani, seemed to be keen in pushing A Raja as the Telecom Minister of the Union Cabinet. Radia was promoting the prospects of some DMK personalities as well as the gas interests of one Ambani brother and the spectrum interests of the Tatas. What if the 2-G scam is related to it!

The second issue was when WikiLeaks published a series of unedited documents that have brought almost every major authority of this world into question. Much debate has ensued on the issues related to publishing unedited documents without prior permission and followups.

These issues are more than ethical. They are legal. Ethics take a backseat when the law comes into the picture. This is why both these issues are debated in courts. As a freelance writer who claims to be unbiased, I really don't want to add another obvious comment here. Rather, I would like to take up a larger issue that has gone unnoticed - that of unbiased journalism.

Let us examine the roots of journalism. Consider a situation when a journalist is covering a riot. People are dying around him and he has a dilemma. He can drop his camera, jump in and save a few lives. But a real journalist will just cover the episode, however ironic it may sound. He will report the real situation. That is his job. However, he will strive towards a greater objective - that the masses get to know about what has happened so that such riots may stop altogether.

What I am getting at is, a journalist has to be unbiased in his reporting. He cannot take sides and make emotional choices, not even politically. Well, according to one of my favorite journalists, Swapan Dasgupta (da), a political journalist often has to do a trade off here.Let me elaborate:

Swapan da elaborates the importance of political 'contacts'. Journalists rely on these 'contacts' for stories. Establishing these 'contacts' requires the building of long term relationships. The relationships, however, are based on understandings. The 'source' may tell you everything that has transpired in a crucial, closed-door meeting. But if he tells you that you can't write a word about it, you are obliged to respect his wishes. The price of violating the understanding is future exclusion. To survive in political journalism you can't spit and run.

Very often political journalist develop cosy relationships with sources. This is the price journalists often pay for knowing the truth. These sources can end up as friends and these personal attachments potentially jeopardize journalistic independence.

I strongly believe that a journalist's primary focus should be knowing and bringing out the truth. He should never lose sight of his motives. Personality or ideology driven journalism is still acceptable (and often interesting). But journalism driven by material favours is pure corruption.

Swapan da himself is considered close to the BJP. But I can not think of an incident when he has not criticized BJP when the need arose. However, the case with Barkha Dutt and Vir Sanghvi was different. Vir Sanghvi referred to congress as 'we'. Barkha Dutt was never far behind in going gaga over everything congress did. She was even accused of sensationalizing the coverage of the Mumbai Terrorist Attacks. Her broadcasts were used by terrorist handlers in Pakistan to relay orders back to their team in Mumbai. The credibility of Ms. Dutt and Mr. Sanghvi was always in question. The day the media had to confront the crisis was long overdue. This day in Indian media was inevitable!

I see it as a success of my nation that we read of a controversy which is being driven by the media against the media. As the nation progresses, the rotten eggs will crack. The question of Outlookpublishing unedited data is as elementary as that of Wikileaks, and debate will never cease on the matter. But the greater question on the impartiality and objectivity of the media needs to be answered as soon as  possible. The sooner we do that, the better it will be for us.

  • nithin
    11.12.10 12:09 PM
    i think Wikileaks is doing a great service, we would never have known US has killed millions of civilians in the name of fight against terrorism.

    do India really deserve a permanent seat in UNSC?
    ratan tata is not jrd tata. the time, tata being socially and morally responsibel is long over. it also follows the ultimate ethics of corporate world " profit ".
  • pdkamath
    07.12.10 09:14 PM
    Hi friend, visiting via Indiblogger network. I feel the selected topic is worth debating at various levels because Indian media is crossing all boundaries while reporting news and often seen biased.Some journalists conducts media trails and decides who is right and who is wrong. Even some times journalists keep national interests aside while reporting new stories. I remember the disciplined American media role when World trade center was blasted and also role of Indian media during Indian plane was hijacked to Kandahar. I still believe that the pressure tactics adopted by Indian media ended up with release of our Country's enemy Maulana Azar Masood.
  • Ranjini
    06.12.10 12:04 PM
    Finally.....I'm so glad to know that I'm not the only one who thinks Farah Khan is a bad director! I totally agree with Aditya. On one side, there's so much undue inportance given to the personal lives of the 'rich & famous' and the so-called 'Page 3' socialites. But on the other hand, there are so many people amongst us who take up a newspaper and turn to such gossip columns right away, just to know what's happening in their favourite celeb's love life and other similar news. So I feel that such people are to blame, as the media only feeds their appetite for such 'sensational' news & gossip.
  • Sourav Roy
    Sourav Roy
    05.12.10 10:39 PM
    @ Pankaj
    After Radia and Wikileaks, let's not create a mood viciously hostile to entrepreneurship- the force that has propelled India's growth story. This is a tradeoff we have to commit! Its time to fight the cancer, and not join the lynch mob, as Swapan da says.

    @ Aditya
    That is true. The worst thing that has happened in the past 15 years in India is that media figures have become celebrities. And they have started to takes sides, and pose around. Farah Khan is indeed a horrible director and media unnecessarily is going gaga over her...
  • Aditya
    05.12.10 09:47 PM
    A honest write up. I always dont understand why th media gives undue importance to certain people. A cheap yet simple example, Farah Khan. A director who has just directed her third film with her first two being silly ones, is given so much prominence in the media, whereby everyone are going ga ga over her skills of making a great song with Kaif. Sad really because in real she doesn't deserve it when there are better directors in the industry. Gives us food for thought whether every things is paid news?
  • Pankaj
    05.12.10 12:07 PM
    There are tones of scams in India..although only few have got uncovered.. I hope more indian scams leak on wikileaks as that will put international pressure on our this article about wikileaks...
  • Sourav Roy
    Sourav Roy
    04.12.10 12:44 PM
    On the face of it, the documents leaked by WikiLeaks and the Radia tapes may appear unrelated but there is a strong link as the game plan of the corporates across the globe is concerned, which is to economically conquer the world by controlling governments. It hurts that the strong foundation of a nation has shifted from patriotism to money!

    While washing international dirty linen in public, it has also brought out the amusing hypocrisy in world politics. Who would have thought that the Saudi King wanted Iran's nuclear plants eliminated? Or that Ratan Tata wanted A. Raja as Telecom Minister?

    It is evident that many conferences, summit meetings and visits are only facades, under which lies a labyrinth of deception, double-dealing and cunningness.

    Hillary Clinton recently described India as a “self-appointed front runner” for permanent membership of the United Nations Security Council is disturbing. It hurts that our government is making tall and false claims of progress. Let us clean up the mess within before thinking of a greater role in world politics. It is high time the government pulled its socks up and worked towards making India a genuine front runner.

    Jai Hind!
  • nalini hebbar
    nalini hebbar
    04.12.10 09:58 AM
    Let the scams reg politicians and the media hit the fan...much needed and timely too...the globe has shrunk and people will learn to be more honest.
  • Sourav Roy
    Sourav Roy
    03.12.10 11:34 PM
    @ Shyam

    Thanks for the compliment :)
  • shyam
    03.12.10 10:59 PM
    dnt know wat to comment now.
  • Sourav Roy
    Sourav Roy
    03.12.10 09:05 PM
    @ Nice

    Agreed! The good shift that is happening is that media is awakening. Red tapism and corruption was always there. But in the past one year media has successfully exposed them!
  • Nice
    03.12.10 05:18 PM
    Nice article. In India's case the exposure of these corrupt parasites is actually a beneficial public service. The sooner these people are exposed and ousted, the sooner India will achieve its true greatness.

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October 9 2002
By Maggie Alderson

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Some of Yves Saint Laurent's spring/summer 2003 collection in Paris.

Paris fashion shows frequently inspire a sense of wonder in the watcher, as in wondering who could possibly wear the clothes on parade.

But to see the Yves Saint Laurent show on Monday night and witness Mick Jagger's ex, Bianca, lounging on one of the black satin front-row sofas in a floor-length chiffon kaftan gown from a previous collection was to understand who: the bold, the beautiful and the bloody rich.

This show did not have the amazing energy and excitement of Tom Ford's past three collections for the house, but with five now notched up, slackening the pace a little on this one did not seem like a huge problem.

Ford has more than proved himself up to the job, and the label's image has been transformed from musty to must-have.

At least half of this collection was terrific. The best bits were high-1980s in feel, complete with the brazen return of the shoulder pad, and when Tom Ford says we will wear linebacker jackets again, you can be sure we will.

These were cropped to just above the hip, with sharp lapels, cinched waists and just a little historic detailing to continue his ongoing theme in an epaulette or a quilted stomacher. The trousers, like many on the catwalks this season, were in the style of those made famous by Olivia Newton-John in Grease - python-tight on the leg, high in the waist and a terrifying prospect to most women. The best ones were black with a satin stripe down the leg and, combined with the jacket above, created the latest version of the Saint Laurent classic le Smoking.

After a week that has been dominated by wildly creative British designers, Monday was the turn of the American stars, with Marc Jacobs showing his latest for Louis Vuitton.

It was clear from the enormous dirigibles of the company logo floating outside the venue that Jacobs was in a playful mood.

It made a pleasant change to see a collection made for summer rather than the general urban gloom that prevailed elsewhere. The show opened with 12 or so models wearing the same style of short satin dress, all in a palette of pretty colours, including pistachio green, primrose, baby pink and forget-me-not blue. They looked like a bowl of shiny, sugared almonds.

There was a strong 1950s feel to the collection, particularly in the suiting, and the Grease pants were also in evidence. The finale was a perverse twist on the opening, with a suite of pretty shift dresses in the same pastel tones, except these were made of pervy latex.

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