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New York – The United Nations experts say arms trafficking out of Libya is fuelling conflict, insecurity and terrorism on several continents.

Since civil war ousted long-time dictator Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, the experts said "Libya has become a primary source of illicit weapons".

In a report to the UN Security Council obtained on Wednesday, the panel of experts said it is investigating the alleged transfer of weapons to 14 countries in violation of a UN arms embargo.

The experts said they have documented the transfer of Libyan shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles to terrorist groups in Mali and Tunisia, and to others in Chad, Lebanon and "potentially" the Central African Republic.

They said Lebanon's seizure of a Syria-bound ship in April 2012 proved that there were attempts to transfer these shoulder-fired missiles, as well as short-range surface-to-air missiles to the Syrian opposition from Libya.

Despite efforts by Libya and other countries to account for and secure shoulder-fired missiles in the country, the panel said its sources stated that thousands of them were still in arsenals controlled by a wide array of militias and "non-state actors with tenuous or non-existent links to Libyan national authorities".

Polarised political landscape

The 97-page report details the panel's efforts to track a wide variety of weapons and ammunition.

The panel said significant quantities of arms, and at times fighters, have gone mainly to Syria, Egypt, and northern Africa's Sahel region.

"This indicates how trafficking from Libya is fuelling conflict and insecurity — including terrorism — on several continents," they said. "This is unlikely to change in the near future."

The panel said Libya's "polarised political landscape" and deteriorating security have left most arsenals in the hands of armed groups, and the government with very limited capacity to control the country's borders, ports and airports.

The experts said old ammunition stores from the Gaddafi regime are also a source of arms proliferation because they contain large quantities of materiel, are under control of a range of actors, and have generally poor security resulting in regular looting.

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Khartoum - Sudan's ruling party on Monday rejected remarks by Malawi's president expressing reservations about welcoming the Sudanese leader to attend an African Union summit there.

Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir is wanted by the International Criminal Court on charges of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Sudan's Darfur region.

Malawi president Joyce Banda said a visit by al-Bashir would be frowned on by Malawi's international donors, but a final decision has not been made.

Banda's predecessor, Bingu wa Mutharika, who died in April, welcomed al-Bashir at a regional summit last year. The Sudanese leader has visited African, Asian and Middle Eastern countries despite the ICC warrants.

Ibrahim Ghandour, an official in Sudan's ruling National Congress Party, criticised Banda's remarks on Monday.

"It is ridiculous of President Banda to state that she wanted to reform her country's economy with the support offered by countries which have apparently incited her to take this position," he said.

The Darfur conflict has tapered off since 2009, but the UN estimates 300 000 people died and 2.7 million have been displaced.

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27 November 2012, 14:10

Allemansdrift is a small village on the banks of Mkhombo Dam in the former kwaNdebele homeland, in Mpumalanga province.

Thandi Zungu was born and raised here. She lives with her unemployed mother and two siblings- two boys and a girl. Her father, Jacob, died of cancer in 1997.

In April of 2002, while travelling with teammates to a netball match in Neilspruit, she got involved in a car accident. Their driver lost control of the minibus they were travelling in and rolled it off the highway and in to a ditch.

The horrific accident left her wheelchair bound. She was hospitalized for five months and could not write her year-end exams that year.

Although she was wheelchair bound, in 2003 Thandi wanted to go back to school and complete her metric. But her school turned her away, citing a lack of provision for her wheelchair.

The principal at the school told Thandi’s mother, Norah, to find her a school for children with special needs.

Norah realized that persuading the principal to accept her daughter in to the school would be a waste of time. So she began searching for another school.

Thandi was rejected by almost all the school to which she applied. Only one school, in Witbank, accepted her application.

But Thandi only spent six months at the school. It was too expensive and her mother could not afford to pay her fees. So she had to drop out.

Six months later, Thandi was still sitting at home. She was deeply depressed, and she had lost hope of ever completing her high school education. She had given up on all the dreams she had before the accident.

Senzo Msiza, a clerk at a nearby primary school, read about Thandi’s story in the local newspaper. He was so moved by Thandi’s miserable plight that he stepped up to lend a hand.

He offered to pay for Thandi’s fees from his own pocket. He also took it upon himself to help

Thandi apply for bursaries.

Thandi has since completed her high school education. She is now studying for a psychology degree at Wits University. She is finally living her dream, and it’s all thanks to Senzo’s generosity.

If it wasn’t for Senzo, Thandi could not have completed her high school education, let alone

go to varsity. She’d still be sitting at home with no hope of ever seeing her dreams come

Obviously, Senzo didn’t change the world. But he revived her dreams in a way she never thought anyone could. He changed her life.

And he did all this without any expectations of gain. He was not motivated by self-interests

or moral hypocrisy. He stepped up to lend a hand simply because he believed it was the right thing to do.

Senzo’s benevolent gesture is a good example of what the world needs to be a better placeubuntu.

And this, in my view, is the one thing the world needs right now.

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Johannesburg - Drinking at school and staying away from classes would be "severely dealt with", Gauteng Premier Nomvula Mokonyane told Diepsloot pupils outside Johannesburg on Wednesday.

She urged them to avoid prioritising leisure activities, such as matric dances and partying. Education should come first.

"Things that create an environment not conducive to good learning, such as drinking liquor at school and staying away from school, will be severely dealt with."

Mokonyane was addressing hundreds of parents and pupils at the official reopening of the Itirele-Zenzele Secondary School in Diepsloot.

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She said education was the key to success and took hard work.

"Your future is in your hands and you must start planning for it today, by studying.

"We are here because we care about you; we spent R70m to build this school so that you can have a good future."

Mokonyane was accompanied by Gauteng education MEC Barbara Creecy and several other officials of the Gauteng government.

The visit formed part of a get-back-to school campaign in the province as schools opened for the new year.

The premier told pupils the government would spend more than R26bn on education this year to make sure that all youth had access to it.

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"Those who come from poor families must also know that we have supporting programmes in our schools that will make sure that they get access to every service."

After addressing the gathering, 150 children from poor families were given uniforms, including jerseys, socks, shirts, trousers and skirts, and shoes.

Mokonyane said she was looking forward to seeing the school becoming one of the top schools in Gauteng. She said its progress would be reviewed in June.

The premier also called on parents to play an active role in the education system.

"Parents must frequently visit schools to check on the overall running [of the school] and the progress of their children."

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Bangkok - Militants shot dead four soldiers and wounded two others early on Saturday in Thailand's volatile south, an army spokesperson said, as a surge in violence since the start of Ramadan continued.

The group of six soldiers were attacked as they patrolled a road in the Mayo district of Pattani province.

"About 20 armed militants on three pickup trucks opened fire at a team of soldiers once they get close to them," said Colonel Pramote Prom-in, southern army spokesperson.

Pramote said four soldiers were killed in the attack and two more were wounded as they returned fire.

The incident came after a roadside bomb killed five policemen in nearby Yala province on Wednesday.

A shadowy insurgency, without clearly stated aims, has raged in Thailand's three southernmost provinces - Pattani, Narathiwat and Yala - since 2004.

Daily bomb or gun attacks have targeted soldiers and civilians, Buddhists and Muslims, claiming more than 5 000 lives in eight years.

A state of emergency is in force in the worst-affected parts of the region which rights campaigners say gives tens of thousands of military troops based there legal immunity, fuelling rights abuses.

Authorities had warned that militants were likely to step-up attacks during the Islamic holy month.

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The world's largest coffee chain is hoping to get a piece of the $8 billion energy drink business.

Starbucks announced it will roll out a new line of energy drinks starting in April.

It will be sold at grocery stores, convenience stores and Starbucks locations.

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Police in St. Augustine are trying to figure out who is stealing from the homeless.

The Homeless Coalition of St. Johns County has been broken into three times in the last month. The thieves are not stealing expensive items, but important items to help a group of homeless families.

"They broke through the window. They lifted the window up," said Debi Redding, of the coalition. "Somebody shimmied through the small little window."

When the crooks got into the storage shed, they took paper towels, paper plates, cleaning products and other similar items. The three break-ins have added up to more than $1,000 worth of products stolen.

"The last one, they had taken everything out," Redding said. "They wiped it clean. They knew what was in there. We kept asking for donations and I kept filling it up with donations, and they would wipe it out again."

The products were used at the special site that the coalition uses for housing homeless families.

"It's paper products for the homeless families," Redding said. "We have 18 homeless families living in our transitional housing, and food stamps don't pay for paper products."

Amanda Washington is one of those in the program. She lives with her husband and son in one of the houses supplied by the coalition. She can't believe somebody would do this.

"It's devastating, honestly, to us," Washington said. "People donate for us. And when a family doesn't have, and it's hard for us to say, 'Hey, can I have?' 'No, we got broken into,' it's insane."

So the coalition is once again asking for help from the community.

"We would love to replenish all the supplies and more," Redding said. "We would also love to get a security system for the back."

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A 24-year-old man lost control of his truck and flipped in the woods near St. Augustine Beach early Monday morning, according to the St. Augustine Police Department.

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Gerald Michael "Mike" Spence, 43, of 2201 Royall Ave., died Sunday at Wayne Memorial Hospital.

The funeral will be held Wednesday at 1 p.m. at The First Pentecostal Holiness Church with Rev. Jimmy Whitfield and Rev. Bill Rose officiating. Burial will be in Evergreen Memorial Cemetery.

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An armed man robbed a Cedarhurst gas station on Saturday morning, swiping DVDs, cans of Red Bull and condoms, but leaving all the cash in the register, Nassau police said.

The robbery occurred at the Mobil gas station at 466 Rockaway Tpke. shortly after 5 a.m., when the suspect, armed with a handgun, approached the 50-year-old male store employee.

The suspect put the stolen items in a duffel bag he was carrying and fled on a bicycle. The store employee was not hurt.

The suspect is described as about 35 years old, 5-feet 6-inches tall, 150 pounds, with long black dreadlocks and wearing a blue T-shirt and black pants.

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Nokia’s new Lumia smartphones will go on sale in November, taking on the iPhone 5 and Samsung Galaxy S III ahead of the Christmas season, but some analysts said the prices for the colorful handsets looked high.

When Nokia launched the Lumia 920 and 820 earlier this month, the market was disappointed by a lack of launch dates and prices for the Windows-powered models which are vital for the Finnish company’s survival.

Nokia published the first pricing data on its local websites on Thursday, with the Lumia coming in cheaper than the new iPhone 5 but higher than the Samsung Galaxy in some markets.

“Nokia will find it difficult to command a premium over Samsung’s Galaxy S III which is the pricing benchmark for a non-Apple flagship smartphone,” said Ben Wood, head of research at British consultancy CCS Insight.

The Galaxy S III, which runs on Google’s Android platform, launched in May and sold 20 million in the first three months. Apple sold more than 5 million iPhone 5 models in the first three days of sales.

The Lumia 920 and 820 run on Microsoft’s new Windows Phone 8 software and both companies are being watched carefully to see whether they can capture market share back from Apple, Samsung and other Android phones.

Once the world’s biggest mobile phone maker, Nokia fell behind rivals in smartphones and has racked up more than 3 billion euros in operating losses in the last 18 months.

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Do not be fooled by the glitter, ribbons and toothy smiles. The girls and boys competing in the 19th iteration of the Long Island Cheerleading Coaches Association (LICCA) Cheerleading Championship are serious athletes.

Even if the only state to recognize cheerleading as a contact sport is Wisconsin, and competitive cheerleading does not qualify for the federal government's Title IX endowments, the athleticism and treacherous aerial choreography of Long Island's cheerleaders are a sight to behold.

Hosted in Hauppauge High School's gymnasium Saturday, bleachers were filled with supporters from all over the Island. Sixteen schools vied for the medium and large varsity championship titles. Each school was given two and half minutes to perform. Points were either awarded or deducted by judges for technique, errors and crowd participation.

Rocky Point was crowned medium varsity champions for the fourth year in a row. Anna Spallina, Rocky Point's head coach credited her team's victory to their athleticism. "We hit on a lot of difficulty early on," Spallina said. "We made it through two and half minutes of pure hell."

Rocky Point's assistant coach, Lenee Passiglia reiterated the girls' ability under pressure, "They pulled it together and hit." Rocky Point heads to Disney World Friday morning to defend their two year reign as national champions.

Mount Sinai completed a "threepeat," having now won the LICCA for the third year in a row. "I'm without words," head coach Samantha Melella said.

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Mount Sinai will join Rocky Point in Orlando to compete in the nationals. In last year's national championship the Devils came in fifth. "This year, it's all about redemption," assistant coach Kara Bochicchio said.

The winners were given black, bedazzled visors (so as not to disturb their coifed hair) that read "LICCA Finals Champions" and trophies that were so enormous they eclipsed some of the girls.

The girls tested their endurance with "Power Fours," an event where three girls supply the foundation and prop up a "flyer", the lightest member of their team, who supports herself with one leg, Karate-Kid style, while loud electro music pounds the gym. Sachem North won the medium varsity bracket with a time of 3:17 and Mount Sinai won the large varsity bracket, lasting 2:36.

In addition to the judged and timed competitions, the teams are awarded in other, non-competitive categories. This year Baldwin and Freeport (for the eighth time) were voted by their peers for the best sportsmanship award. There is an All-Star award where a single girl from each team is selected by their coach and is decorated and honored for their commitment and ability. The LICCA also gives six $1,000 scholarships to seniors.

This was the first year that a maneuver called "inversions" were permitted by the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFSHSA). Inversions are flips in pyramids where the head goes below the waist. Laurie Kolodny, the coach of the Freeport team, said that "inversions bring so much more excitement from the crowd and the kids are excited and they take cheerleading to the next level."

This year's championship took place in the wake of a New York legislative decision to not define cheerleading as a sport. Gail Verne, president of the LICCA was disappointed. "We were 99 percent positive cheerleading would be considered a sport," Verne said. The legal roadblock created what Verne called "a tough year for us, but it has been a mission since 1994 and we are not going to give up."

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Published: Sunday, August 3, 2014 at 04:20 PM.

PANAMA CITY — As donations trickle in, organizers of an annual school supplies and clothing drive are asking community members to donate their time.

Organizers of Klothes for Kids is seeking volunteers to help distribute back-to-school items to more than 1,000 families in need Aug. 15 and 16.

Klothes for Kids is hosted by a number of churches and businesses in conjunction with the homeless shelter at the Panama City Rescue Mission.

"We need 150 volunteers per shift," said Amanda Bawn, development coordinator at the mission.

Volunteers are needed for all aspects of the giveaway. A volunteer might expect to check-in families, work in the shoe department, guide families through the shopping center or restock the warehouse.

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Day of hockey celebrations planned as Wallace High School open new astro pitch

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Wallace High School are planning to dominate Ulster schoolboy hockey for many seasons to come.

The Lisburn-based double Schools’ Cup winners will open their new blue astro pitch, which is a first in Northern Ireland if not Ireland, on Friday in an extravaganza of hockey and entertainment.

Wallace are grateful to Sport NI and also the Trustees for their financial support in this exciting development. Modelled on the “smurf turf” which was played on during the Olympic Games hockey tournament in London 2012, the move will give hockey players at the Lisburn school a top class facility on their own doorstep, whilst it will also be available for the community outside normal school hours.

Chief Executive of Sport Northern Ireland, Antoinette McKeown, said: “Sport Northern Ireland is delighted to have supported Wallace High School in funding the 2G hockey pitch.

“It is great to see that our investment of almost £245k is providing value for money and increased sporting opportunities for our young people.

“Facilities such as Wallace High School are vital in increasing the number of children and adults participating in sport and physical activity.”

Friday will begin with local Primary school children being invited to the school to be coached by some of the senior players with the emphasis being mainly on having fun and learning some of the skills of the game.

Dame Mary Peters will officially open the pitch at 7pm.

At 4pm the current girls’ 1st XI will play the 2011 1st XI which reached the final of the Schoolgirls’ Cup before being defeated on penalty strokes by Lurgan College.

At 5.30pm boys who have represented the school this season will be joined by past pupils in a game where teams will be mixed. It is also hoped that several past senior international players will come out of retirement for this game which can only add to the occasion.

One of the highlights of the day and also the school year will be a display by the Wild Geese sky diving team which will take place between 6.30pm and 6.45pm. They will deliver the match ball for the final game of the day.

An Ulster under 17 boys’ XI will take on their Scottish counterparts in the official opening match on the new pitch.

Wallace Principal, Mrs Deborah O’Hare, said: “This is a facility not only to benefit our hockey players but one which will benefit the community of Lisburn. Without the support of the Trustees of the school and Sport NI this would not have been possible.

“In times of such austerity it was encouraging to note that local government funding was still available as an important investment in the health and well being of generations of young people who will use this facility for a variety of sporting activities.”

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Pelosi's War

By Newsmax Staff   |   Tuesday, 16 Oct 2007 12:14 PM

If Turkey intensifies its military campaign against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq, observers will point a finger of blame at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for her support of a resolution accusing the Turks of “genocide.”

Pelosi said Sunday that she'd bring to a vote the resolution condemning the mass killings of Armenians in Turkey nearly a century ago as genocide, despite warnings that the action could damage U.S.-Turkey relations.

The House Foreign Affairs Committee passed the non-binding resolution last week.

About 1.5 million Armenians were killed, beginning in 1915, as the Ottoman Empire crumbled. The Turkish government objects to the word “genocide” and insists that while hundreds of thousands of Armenians died, they died as a result of war.

Opponents of the resolution, including President Bush, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and Defense Secretary Robert Gates, argue that the measure jeopardizes relations with an important ally at a time when Turkey’s cooperation in Iraq and Afghanistan is vital.

Turkish President Abdullah Gul has called the resolution “unacceptable.”

Pelosi’s push for the measure comes as Turkey has reportedly already launched limited strikes against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq, and has even forged a military alliance with Iran to combat the rebels, who have carried out guerilla operations inside Turkey and Iran.

Turkey and Iran attacked rebel forces in Iran and Iraq beginning in August, a rebel commander told Newsmax correspondent Kenneth R. Timmerman.

Turkish and Iranian artillery have shelled civilian villages inside Iraq, the commander added.

The military operations make the timing of the “genocide” resolution especially unfortunate, threatening not only a wider war against the Kurds, but also a cutoff of American access to the strategic Incirlik airbase crucial to U.S. operations in Iraq.

When a similar resolution reached the House in October 2000, then Speaker Dennis Hastert withdraw it minutes before a scheduled vote, after President Bill Clinton warned it would harm ties with Turkey.

The French National Assembly voted a year ago to make it a crime to deny that the Armenian killings were genocide. Turkey responded by suspending military ties with France.

Turkish President Gul blames the Democrats’ support of the genocide resolution on “petty games of domestic politics.”

And Newsmax pundit David Limbaugh writes: “In the unlikely event that the Democrats’ motive isn’t to undercut our mission in Iraq, it might as well be – and they ought to be held accountable just as sternly as if it were.

“To the extent the resolution imperils American troops, it is egregiously reckless and indefensible at all levels.”

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Study: Fewer US Muslims in Domestic Terror Cases

Wednesday, 02 Feb 2011 12:09 PM

NEW YORK (AP) — A new report says the number of U.S. Muslims accused in terror plots dropped by more than half in 2010.

The study was released Wednesday by the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security, which includes experts from Duke University and the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

Twenty American Muslims were suspects in terror plots last year, compared to 47 in 2009.

The 2009 spike was due mainly to a large number of Somali-Americans who tried to join the al-Shabab militant movement in Somalia.

Last year, five American Muslim terror suspects carried out their plans, including one who tried to set off a bomb in Times Square and others who joined militant movements overseas.

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Yale's Shiller: Stocks Are Better Investment Than Homes

By Dan Weil   |   Wednesday, 01 May 2013 01:14 PM

The housing market may be on the rebound, but stocks are a superior investment than homes are, according to Yale economist Robert Shiller.

"If it's just an investment, [not for living], I would say the stock market," he told CNBC.

The Standard & Poor's 500 Index hit another record high Tuesday, closing at 1,598. Meanwhile, the S&P Case/Shiller index of home prices for 20 cities soared 9.3 percent in February from a year earlier, the biggest increase since May 2006.

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"Stocks for the long run — the two century-long history — show a lot of amazingly good performance for stocks," Shiller said. "Maybe it won't be that good in the future, but I bet it's better than housing."

In the decade ended December 2012, home prices, as measured by the S&P/Case-Shiller 10-City Composite Index, produced an annualized return of about 1 percent, while the S&P 500 appreciated 7 percent, according to CNBC.

As for February's home price increase, "the recent run up in prices probably has a lot to do with the lack of supply," Mark Vitner, a senior economist at Wells Fargo Securities, told Bloomberg.

"The more attention that home price gains get, more and more people will realize it's a good time to sell their home."

When it comes to stocks, "Even though the overall backdrop isn't overly positive, the market has a strong underlying bid, where it wants to go up on earnings and the Federal Reserve having our back with policy," Michael Mullaney, chief investment officer of Fiduciary Trust, told Reuters.

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UBS Informant Offers to Help Find Tax Cheats

Monday, 28 Dec 2009 02:16 PM

A key informant in the U.S. tax evasion case against Swiss bank UBS AG has asked a federal court in Florida to postpone the scheduled Jan. 8 start of his prison term so that he can cooperate further with the U.S. government to uncover tax cheats.

Former UBS banker Bradley Birkenfeld, who was sentenced in August to three years and four months in prison for helping a billionaire hide assets from U.S. tax authorities, made the postponement request in a filing this weekend by his lawyer to a U.S. district court in Florida.

The filing also requested a hearing to reconsider the 40-month sentence imposed on Birkenfeld, a U.S. citizen, by federal Judge William Zloch on Aug. 21.

Birkenfeld's sentencing in August came two days after U.S. and Swiss authorities signed a pact in which Switzerland agreed to reveal the names of about 4,450 wealthy American clients of UBS to U.S. tax investigators.

Supporters of Birkenfeld and whistleblower advocates had criticized the sentence against as too harsh, saying his testimony was pivotal in helping prosecutors to uncover massive tax cheating by U.S. holders of undisclosed UBS accounts.

The critics said the informant's tougher-than-expected treatment would undermine future U.S. efforts to expose secretive offshore tax havens used by tax evaders.

"Since the August 21, 2009, sentencing hearing, Mr. Birkenfeld has been ready, willing and able to cooperate further with the Government" in helping bring cases against other UBS clients suspected of concealing assets from U.S. tax authorities, the filing by attorney David Meier said.

"Accordingly ... the defendant respectfully submits that the court should extend the date on which Mr. Birkenfeld is to self-report to the Bureau of
Prisons (presently scheduled to be January 8, 2010), the document said.

The filing noted that despite the U.S. government's stated intention, expressed at the original sentencing hearing, to continue to use him in its investigations, it had "neither met with Mr. Birkenfeld, not asked him a single question" in the last four months.

The request said an extension of Birkenfeld's voluntary surrender was
warranted to give him sufficient time to provide additional assistance to the government.

There was no immediate comment from prosecutors.

Government lawyers had said that by coming forward in the summer of 2007 and volunteering insider information to the Justice Department, Birkenfeld had exposed UBS practices that encouraged tax fraud by U.S. citizens.

The Swiss bank earlier in the year settled criminal charges by paying $780 million, and then promising to name thousands of suspected American tax cheats and exit the U.S. tax-shelter business.

Birkenfeld had pleaded guilty to a single fraud conspiracy count in June 2008 for helping a billionaire client hide assets from the Internal Revenue Service.
Justice Department officials, in a claim disputed by Birkenfeld's supporters, said he received a prison sentence instead of probation because he had initially sought to conceal his personal involvement in tax fraud.

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Investigations after train and van collide in Co. Mayo

A small commuter train struck a van in Ballyvary

Investigations are underway following a collision between a passenger train and a postal van in Co. Mayo this morning.

The small commuter train struck a van at an unmanned level crossing in Ballyvary.

The postman was taken to Mayo General Hospital where he is said to be a stable condition.

There were six passengers and the driver on board the train at the time. However none of them were injured.

In a statement, Iarnrod Eireann says it will investigate the incident, while the Railway Safety Commission and the Rail Accident Investigation Unit have also been informed.

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United Arab Emirates gives Joplin relief up to $1M

The United Arab Emirates on Tuesday pledged to give up to $1 million to help equip high school students in the tornado-ravaged city of Joplin with laptop computers for the coming school year.

When the new school year begins later this month, some students will attend classes in a converted big-box store, but they’ll have new Apple notebooks to aid their studies.

Joplin High School was among the many homes and buildings destroyed by the May 22 tornado that tore through the city, killing 160 people and injuring hundreds of others. The Gulf state’s gift to the Joplin school district will help it further integrate computer-assisted learning in its classrooms, said Angie Bessendorfer, an assistant superintendent.

“The students are thrilled. The way we teach and the way students learn is going to be very different,” said Bessendorfer, who added the computer initiative has been a district goal for at least three years.

The gift materialized after United Arab Emirates officials read an Associated Press story in late June about the school system’s struggles, said Dana Al Marashi, who heads the heritage and social affairs department at the oil-rich country’s embassy in Washington. After Hurricane Katrina, the United Arab Emirates donated $100 million to U.S. relief efforts.

The United Arab Emirates pledged $500,000 toward the district’s computer initiative, and up to another $500,000 to match similar donations.

The district, which set a $2.7 million fundraising goal for the initiative, will supplement the money it’s receiving from the United Arab Emirates with proceeds from its insurance settlement, Bessendorfer said. That portion of the settlement money would otherwise have been used for textbooks, many of which will now be obsolete because of the computers.

“They have big ideas about what they think the school can be like,” she said, referring to the teachers and students.

Despite the tragedy and hardship their community 140 miles south of Kansas City has endured, district officials say summer school enrollment was unusually large and the fall semester is on track to begin Aug. 17.

They have been busy sorting out how they’ll continue serving the 2,200 displaced high school students. In addition to the high school, the tornado destroyed two other school buildings and it badly damaged seven others.

Half of the high school students will attend classes in an empty big-box store near the city’s mall. Freshmen and sophomores will attend class in a vacant school building that avoided major damage.

Al Marashi hopes the gift will be start of a long-term relationship with the southwestern Missouri city, with future programs to include cultural exchanges.

“I don’t want this to be a one-off investment,” she said.

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Taxes being paid on plane used by McCaskill

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill says more than $280,000 in back personal property taxes on an airplane she partly owns is being paid.

The Missouri Democrat says checks covering the taxes were to be sent Monday to St. Louis County, where the twin-engine eight-seater is hangared.

A company incorporated by McCaskill’s husband owns the plane, which her Senate office has paid to use. McCaskill said Monday her husband agreed to sell the plane and that she does not plan to ever set foot on it again.

McCaskill says the unpaid taxes are a mistake and that she took responsibility for it. McCaskill says there was no attempt to hide the plane’s existence and noted that monthly sales taxes have been paid on the plane for several years.

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Businesses boost orders for equipment, machinery

WASHINGTON (AP) — Companies ordered more machinery, computers and communication equipment in August, a positive sign for the slumping U.S. economy.

An increase in demand for those kind of longer-lasting factory goods suggests businesses are sticking with their investment plans, despite slow growth and weak consumer spending.

Overall orders for durable goods slipped 0.1 percent last month. The modest decline was largely due to an 8.5 percent drop in orders for autos and auto parts. In July, demand for those goods surged 10.2 percent — the biggest increase in eight years.

Economists looked past the headline figure and focused more closely on a 1.1 percent increase in a key category that measures business investment plans. Those are core capital goods that are neither used for defense nor transportation.

Another bright sign: shipments of those goods rose 2.8 percent, the fourth consecutive gain in this category.

The orders were placed and shipped in a month when the stock market fluctuated wildly, Europe’s debt crisis intensified and a raft of data suggested the U.S. economy was vulnerable to another recession.

Economists said the fact that businesses kept expanding and modernizing during the turbulent month suggests many are confident in the future.

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Building an Exercise Routine on a Time Budget

Researchers say mixing some intense exercise in a moderate workout steps up calorie burn

The U.S. government recommends the average adult get 150 minutes of moderate exercise each week or 75 minutes of a more strenuous workout. Most of us don't, however, using the lack of time as an excuse.

Researchers at the University of Colorado say it might not take nearly as long to achieve results if we would use an exercise technique known as sprint interval training. They have found that exercisers can burn as many as 200 extra calories in as little as 2.5 minutes of concentrated effort a day —- as long as they intersperse longer periods of easy recovery in a practice known as sprint interval training.

Manageable exercise

The finding could make exercise more manageable for would-be fitness buffs by cramming truly intense efforts into as little as 25 minutes.

Using a stationary bike as an example, the researchers suggest peddling at a moderate pace for 10 minutes or so before kicking into high gear and peddling at a fast pace for two or three minutes, then repeating the pattern. Their results showed a marked uptick in the amount of calories the volunteers burned on the workout day, despite the short amount of time spent in actual hard exercise.

“Research shows that many people start an exercise program but just can’t keep it up,” said Kyle Sevits, leader of the research team. “The biggest factor people quote is that they don’t have the time to fit in exercise. We hope if exercise can be fit into a smaller period of time, then they may give exercise a go and stick with it.”

Testing the theory

In a test, volunteers engaged in extended periods of moderate activity. One one day, they engaged in sprint interval training.

An analysis of a system that measured the subjects' calorie expenditure showed that the volunteers burned an average of an extra 200 calories on the sprint interval workout day, despite spending just 2.5 minutes engaged in hard exercise.

Though the researchers can’t yet speculate on whether such efforts could translate into weight loss, Sevits and his colleagues suggest that engaging in intense, but brief, bursts of exercise could aid in weight maintenance.

“Burning an extra 200 calories from these exercises a couple of times a week can help keep away that pound or two that many Americans gain each year,” Sevits said.

A word of caution: depending on age and medical factors, not everyone should engage in intense exercise. No change in exercise routine should be undertaken without first discussing it with your doctor.

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Loss of tail rotor effectiveness led to 2013 helicopter crash near Fort McMurray, Alberta

EDMONTON, AB, Feb. 5, 2014 /CNW/ - The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) today released its investigation report (A13W0070) into a collision with terrain of a Bell 206B helicopter near Fort McMurray, Alberta.

On 29 May 2013, the Bell 206B helicopter operated by Wood Buffalo Helicopters was conducting wildlife survey work approximately 75 nautical miles north of Fort McMurray, Alberta, with one pilot and two passengers on board. While looking for a landing site, the helicopter entered an un-commanded rotation and descended into a stand of trees. The emergency locator transmitter activated on impact. There was no post-impact fire. The pilot and rear-seat passenger were fatally injured; the front-seat passenger was seriously injured.

The investigation found that the helicopter had entered a flight condition that resulted in a loss of tail rotor effectiveness, which caused a loss of control at an altitude that made recovery impossible and resulted in a collision with terrain.

Since the occurrence, Wood Buffalo Helicopters has made changes to its pilots' training forms to document that loss of tail rotor effectiveness (LTE) instruction was completed during their technical ground training and flight training programs. Wood Buffalo Helicopters also conducted an internal LTE awareness campaign through a company safety meeting as well as through the creation and distribution of an operations bulletin on LTE and the hazards related to slow and low flight.

The TSB is an independent agency that investigates marine, pipeline, railway and aviation transportation occurrences. Its sole aim is the advancement of transportation safety. It is not the function of the Board to assign fault or determine civil or criminal liability.

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By now Michael Frayn's farce about a dumb troupe of actors called "Noises Off," which opened in Britain in 1982 and hit Broadway the next year, has been so widely produced in the English-speaking world that it's an old chestnut. Which is different from a classic. "Noises Off" hasn't the heft a classic demands, even for a farce. With its falling pants, constant door-slamming, so-so slapstick and running joke about sardines, it's actually a burlesque as farces go.

But "Noises Off" has one thing going for it:

As it moves through three acts, it builds on itself, getting funnier act by act, and leaves 'em laughin'. If you've never seen it, the production that opened this weekend at People's Light & Theatre in Malvern will likely be a big thumbs up. And if like me, you haven't seen it in ages, the production will be more than simply amusing, especially by the third act -- which People's Light (as is the rule these days for this farce) combines with the second act, so as to have a single intermission.

Trying to explain the plot, as it is, of "Noises Off" is fraught with the danger of trying to parse any farce: You had to be there. So I'll just say that it's about the performance of an outrageously pointless one-act playlet – Frayn was deft in writing such a nonsense farce, then laying another farce about the actors on top of it.
You see or hear this play three times during "Noises Off ," whose title refers to the theater jargon for off-stage noise whenever playwrights choose to have such an effect. (Frayn certainly did, and some of the off-stage noise here is actually on stage, as one part of the show takes place back stage.)

The first time we see the little play about a real estate agent who brings a young lady to a house for rent with some ha-cha-cha in mind, only to find the housekeeper there and the owners arriving for a surprise visit, the actors performing the show are in a final rehearsal and the whole thing is a mess, clearly not ready for an audience.

The second and third time – well, if you've never seen it (or the movie made from the show), go find out for yourself. Hint: The personal alliances of the cast and its director play heavily into the way the actors behave onstage as well as off.

The real director of People's Light's "Noises Off" is the gifted comic actor Pete Pryor, now associate artistic director of the company. He's staged it smoothly, with actors who bring it off to that effect. Leonard C. Haas portrays the hopeless director of this hapless cast, David Ingram and Liz Filios are the owners of the house in the playlet, and Christopher Kelly and Jessica Bedford are the couple who've come for a moment of whoopee.

The especially dandy Marcia Saunders is the mixed-up housekeeper and David Howey stands out as an actor who hits the sauce and plays a burglar in the playlet. Leah Walton and Andrew Kane portray badgered stagehands.

Tony Straiges' set design is particularly impressive – the farce calls for us to see the playlet from the front of the stage and also behind it, and his turntable setting is a lesson in how magical theater is from an audience and how work-a-day off-stage. And it's obvious that even on that work-a-day backstage, Marla J. Jurglanis had a swell time designing the costumes, particularly for the women.

"Noises Off" runs through August 4 at People's Light & Theatre Company, 39 Conestoga Road, Malvern. 610-644-3500 or


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    A spectacular new production of Johann Strauss’ operetta by the renowned Jeremy Sams (The Enchanted Island) sets the action in fin-de-siècle Vienna. The sets evoke the style of that time--think the gilded paintings of Gustav Klimt--and Strauss’s frothy comedy of trickery, mistaken identity, and love takes on new resonances. Susanna Phillips and Christopher Maltman are the principal singers, with Adam Fischer conducting.

    The Metropolitan Opera was founded in 1883, making its first home in a building at 39th and Broadway before moving to Lincoln Center when construction on the new Metropolitan Opera House was finished in 1966. The company quickly established itself as a serious contender in the competitive world of international opera, early on attracting such renowned singers as Nellie Melba, Enrico Caruso and Rosa Ponselle. Its stage has continued to attract the greatest vocal artists of subsequent generations from around the globe, including Roberta Peters, Luciano Pavarotti, Sherrill Milnes, and Plácido Domingo.

    Under Met General Manager Peter Gelb’s leadership, the 2013-14 line-up includes a startling new take on Rigoletto, beloved standards ranging from I Puritani to Der Rosenkavalier, the return of Tony winner Paolo Szot in the comic and absurd The Nose, and a new work from the 21st century, Nico Muhly’s Two Boys.

    Sung in German with Met Titles in English, German, and Spanish.

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    Binoculars are available for a $5 rental fee at the coat check station on the South Concourse. All operas are translated by the Met Titles system, which appears on seatbacks, stanchions and at standing room locations. Drinks and snacks are available pre-curtain and during intermission at bars on all levels. The Revlon Bar and Grand Tier Restaurant offer more substantive dining options. No food or drink is allowed in the auditorium. Photography and sound recording are forbidden. Bags, parcels and luggage are not permitted in the theater. The doors open 45 minutes before curtain. Latecomers will not be seated until intermission, and patrons who leave the auditorium will not be readmitted until intermission.

    Did you know?
    Strauss was known as the “Waltz King,” and that distinctive dance plays a central role in the opera.

    Strauss’ father was also a composer, but he didn’t want his son to follow in his footsteps, going so far as to beat his son when he discovered him practicing the violin. The elder Strauss eventually abandoned his family, leaving the younger to pursue music as a career unhindered.
  • This is opera at its lightest and most whimsical, and Jeremy Sams’s inventive production design will make this a Die Fledermaus to remember.

    Good for kids?
    The themes are likely too adult for most children
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