Religion In Ancient Rome

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Religion In Ancient Rome:- Religion played a very important role in the daily life of Ancient Rome and the Romans. Roman religion was centred around gods and explanations for events usually involved the gods in some way or another. The Romans believed that gods controlled their lives and, as a result, spent a great deal [...] ...

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Protecting Your Online Privacy

With the NSA conducting surveillance on our data and Google scanning our email, how can we protect our personal information? Jon Xavier, digital producer at Silicon Valley Business Journal, discusses the services that you can use to make your information more secure and private.

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Egypt's divide turns brother against brother

By Peter Graff and Tom Finn

CAIRO (Reuters) - Islam Ibrahim has no idea if his older brother Nasim was one of the Republican Guardsmen shooting at him when he and hundreds of other Egyptians were wounded and more than 50 killed.

The brothers, who moved together to Cairo from a village near the Suez Canal, stayed close until last week, when the army in which Nasim serves toppled the president that Islam has vowed to defend.

"I don't know if he was there with them or not," said Islam, 24, with a bandage from a gunshot on his knee and an open wound from birdshot on his shoulder.

"I don't like to think about it. If he was, I know he wouldn't fire on unarmed demonstrators," he said. He sat on a plastic chair behind the stage at the camp near a Cairo mosque where thousands of supporters of the deposed president, Mohamed Mursi, say they will keep a protest vigil until he is restored.

The overthrow of Mursi, Egypt's first democratically elected president, has split the country like no other event in memory, dividing brothers from brothers, fathers from sons and husbands from wives.

Two days after the army ousted Mursi following escalating street protests against his rule, Islam called his brother to invite him to a pro-Mursi rally.

"He said I should be at home celebrating and that the army had saved the country from chaos," recalled Islam. The brothers have not spoken since.

A few days later, Islam was among protesters outside the headquarters of his brother's Republican Guard when they were fired upon in one of the deadliest incidents in more than two years of political unrest.

"I was still praying when I heard the gunfire. I was 300 meters away from the soldiers. They were shooting teargas over our heads," said Islam, clutching a walking cane in one hand and a Koran in a brown leather case in the other.

BULLETS FLYING

"I heard bullets flying in all directions. Everyone was running left and right. Some of my friends were throwing rocks at the soldiers. We made a shield out of steel traffic barriers, but my leg was sticking out and a bullet struck me in the knee.

"My friend helped me stop the bleeding with his shirt. As I was running back another bullet hit me in the shoulder."

The army says the violence was provoked by terrorists who attacked its troops. The Brotherhood says its supporters were fired upon while peacefully praying. Footage circulated widely on the Internet shows uniformed snipers firing from rooftops.

The most chilling of those videos was filmed by Ahmed Assem, a baby-faced 26-year-old photographer for a Muslim Brotherhood newspaper. The footage shows a sniper shooting off to one side, then suddenly turning straight towards the photographer and firing. Assem's camera blacks out at the moment of impact from the shot that killed him.

Assem too came from a divided family: he was the only Mursi supporter in a household raised to despise the Brotherhood.

His father Samir Assem, a doctor, is furious that the Brotherhood has declared his son a martyr: "Trading in blood. Trading in blood," he says angrily.

The slain photographer's older brother Eslam, who picked up the body at the morgue on Monday, is a captain in the police. Photos in a frame at the family home show the two men, the younger smiling in a button-down shirt, the older standing proudly in his dress uniform.

The brothers occasionally used to chide each other about their allegiances, said Eslam.

LIKE ANY TWO BROTHERS

"I would speak to him, like any two brothers," he recalled at the family home in a middle-class Cairo district. "'Leave the Muslim Brotherhood.' 'No, you leave the Ministry of Interior.'"

They stayed close despite the disputes: "He is my brother. That's the only thing. He is my brother. He is working in the newspaper. I am working in the Ministry of the Interior. But the last thing is: he is my brother."

Eslam has no doubt that the video his brother filmed shows he was an innocent victim of a deliberate killing by a soldier who picked him out of the crowd.

"His only crime is that he is recording a video. He has no gun, no pistol, no nothing in his hand, but a camera," he said. He plans to report the killing to prosecutors, to try to bring the soldier who killed his brother to justice.

But his brother's death has not shaken his hatred for the Brotherhood: "The Muslim Brotherhood leaders are devils," he said. "None of the kids who died were the children of the leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood. It's never their sons who are being sent into the line of fire."

Back at the tent at the Brotherhood camp, Islam Ibrahim tells of how close he and his soldier brother were when they moved to Cairo three years ago. Nasim was sent to the capital to serve in the Republican Guard; Islam found a job teaching Arabic at a mosque.

Their father, head of a tourism company, had been a member of the Brotherhood in the 1980s and 90s who quit after he was arrested and tortured by autocrat Hosni Mubarak's secret police. Islam joined the Brotherhood at 18 after he heard a sermon from a preacher from Alexandria. He revealed his membership to his father but kept it from his mother so she would not worry.

The brothers' politics overlapped during the 2011 revolution that toppled Mubarak. They attended protests together then, but drifted apart a bit after Mubarak's fall. Islam knew that Nasim disapproved of his ties to the Brotherhood. Still, they had remained on good terms until now.

Today, he cannot imagine how Nasim can remain in an army that toppled an elected president and shot so many people.

"He has to leave the army now. It is no longer possible to support Egypt and support the army. Those two things are incompatible," Islam said.

"I have called him but he doesn't answer his phone."

(Writing by Peter Graff; Editing by Will Waterman and Eric Walsh)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/egypts-divide-turns-brother-against-brother-002645626.html

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Why Leah Remini Is Leaving the Church of Scientology

Leah Remini is breaking up with Scientology. The King of Queens actress, a longtime member of the controversial church, has reportedly left after years of tension with leader David Miscavige. According to sources, Miscavige subjected Remini to years of interrogation, scrutiny and punishment -- all because of an incident that happened at Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes's wedding.

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Vintage Baseball Game Comes To Easton Saturday

EASTON, Conn. ? Easton?s Veterans Park will travel back to the 19th century Saturday for a pair of old-rules baseball games that pay tribute to the sport?s beginnings.

The Friends of Vintage Base Ball, a Hartford-based re-enactment group, will play a pair of games at Veterans Park on July 13. The event is co-sponsored by the Historical Society of Easton and the Parks and Recreation Department.

Along with period-appropriate uniforms, the players will operate under 19th-century rules, using different eras as their guides for each of the two games. The first game will be played as if in the 1960s, the second under 1880s rules.

Compared with the current rules, some of the changes are small, such as the pitcher standing closer to the batter and throwing underhand. Other changes are more noticeable, including that early-era players fielded with their bare hands and umpires did not award walks?batters took as many pitches as necessary until they hit a ball in play or struck out.

Fans also won?t see another common occurrence in modern baseball: arguments with an umpire. As the Friend of Vintage Base Ball say, 19th-century umpires were treated with the same respect as a judge in his courtroom.

?In the Civil War era of base ball, there was only one umpire and his word was law,? the group says on its website. ?Players were not allowed to speak to the umpire unless spoken to, and at all times, the umpire was to be addressed as ?Sir.??

The first game will start at 11 a.m., with the second game at about 12:30 p.m. Both games are at Veterans Park, 366 Sport Hill Road, Easton.

Tickets are $5 each, $20 for families of four or more and free for children under 5. Seating is scarce, so attendees are encouraged to bring blankets and lawn chairs.

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To Drive More Clicks, Twitter Is Testing A Feature That Reveals Where Popular Tweets Have Appeared

A little over a year ago, Twitter kicked off an initiative to experiment with different ways of making tweets more interactive -- a strategy that has brought us Twitter cards with previews, and shortcodes for embedding tweets elsewhere. Today, one of the latest experiments is adding more data into the mix: a list of sites linking to where a tweet has been embedded.

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Kazakhstan trade trip poses human rights test for UK's Cameron

By Andrew Osborn

ATYRAU, Kazakhstan (Reuters) - British Prime Minister David Cameron helped inaugurate the world's costliest oil project in Kazakhstan on Sunday on a trip aimed at sealing business deals but quickly beset by questions over the Central Asian nation's poor human rights record.

Kazakhstan hopes Cameron's visit, the first by a serving British prime minister, will cement its status as a rising economic power and confer a degree of the legitimacy from the West it has long sought.

The visit takes place just days before the nation marks 15 years since the founding of the new Kazakh capital Astana, also the 73rd birthday of President Nursultan Nazarbayev, a national holiday and cause for celebration that has been anticipated for days in state media.

Nazarbayev, a former Communist party apparatchik, has overseen market reforms and maintains wide popularity among the 17-million strong population, but has tolerated no dissent or opposition during his more than two decades in power.

Cameron said he hoped the 30 businessmen accompanying him would sign over 700 million pounds worth of deals during his two-day trip.

"We are in a global race for jobs and investment. This is one of the most rapidly emerging countries in the world," Cameron told reporters on his arrival in the Kazakh oil capital Atyrau.

His office said he aimed to "put British businesses in prime position to secure contracts that the Government believes could total ?85 billion in the coming years".

Cameron is also hoping to persuade Kazakhstan to expand transit rights for British military forces relocating equipment from Afghanistan between now and a planned withdrawal next year. Nazarbayev has already granted overflight rights, but Cameron is looking for land transit rights too.

Cameron and Nazarbayev together opened the Bolashak (Future) oil plant which will process crude that is due to start flowing from the giant Kashagan offshore oilfield in September.

Royal Dutch Shell has a 16.81 percent stake in the facility, which is in the Kazakh segment of the Caspian Sea. Nazarbayev said last week consortium members had so far invested $48 billion, making it the most expensive oil venture in the world.

TEMPTING TARGET

As Britain's trade with the euro zone suffers because of the currency bloc's debt woes, it is looking further afield to forge business links with countries that have enjoyed rapid economic growth in recent years.

With a $200 billion economy, the largest in Central Asia, and deep oil and gas reserves, Kazakhstan is a tempting target. Britain is already among the top three sources of foreign direct investment, according to Kazakh officials.

Since its 1991 independence, officials say British firms have invested about $20 billion in their economy, part of a total $170 billion ploughed into Kazakhstan since then.

But more high profile trade links carry political risks.

New York-based Human Rights Watch said Cameron had a duty to use his trip to denounce human rights abuses.

"We are very concerned about the serious and deteriorating human rights situation there in recent years, including credible allegations of torture, the imprisonment of government critics, (and) tight controls over the media and freedom of expression and association," it said in a letter on Friday.

Answering questions from reporters in Atyrau on Sunday, Cameron said he never put trade and business interests before rights.

"We will raise all the issues, including human rights. That's part of our dialogue and I'll be signing a strategic partnership with Kazakhstan," he said.

"Nothing is off the agenda, including human rights."

Activists most want Cameron to bring up the case of Vladimir Kozlov, a jailed opposition leader, when he meets Nazarbayev.

An outspoken critic of the Kazakh leader, Kozlov was jailed for seven-and-a-half years in October for colluding with a fugitive billionaire in a failed attempt to rally oil workers to bring down the government. Kozlov denied the charges.

Nazarbayev, a former steelworker who now holds the title "The Leader of the Nation", says that he puts stability and rising living standards before hasty political changes in his steppe nation, the world's ninth-largest by area and five times the size of France.

Comparing Kazakhstan to "Asian economic tigers" like South Korea and Singapore, he has said he wants to turn it into "the economic snow leopard of Central Asia".

(Additional reporting by Dmitry Solovyov; in Almaty; Editing by Sonya Hepinstall)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/kazakhstan-trade-trip-poses-human-rights-test-uks-201117657.html

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Long-time head of Winthrop University retires

ROCK HILL, S.C. (AP) - The campus leader who's headed South Carolina's Winthrop University for nearly a quarter-century is heading into retirement.

The Herald of Rock Hill reports (http://bit.ly/14EQcf6 ) that Winthrop President Anthony DiGiorgio arrived in 1989 and is leaving on Sunday after 24 years.

DiGiorgio changed the former women's school once known mostly for training teachers into a public university that receives national recognition. He has worked to upgrade campus buildings and services, and keep operating with dramatically reduced state funding.

DiGiorgio's successor is Jayne Marie Comstock, a former vice president of academic affairs at Butler University in Indianapolis.

Information from: The Herald, http://www.heraldonline.com

Copyright 2013 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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Noodling tournament raises money for cancer benefits

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Eric Dennis spent his Saturday supporting the Huauni Creek Hunting Club.

While he's never cast a fishing line he hoped to reel in a big catch for the organization.

"I'm not a hunter, but I'm going to learn," said Dennis.

With their noodling tournament the club hopes to continue to help Texomans battle cancer.

"This hunting club does more than hunting things," Dennis said. "They're really people oriented, and they're looking for people to help. They want to help people."

Club Secretary Bill Delaney explains how noodling helps them help the community.

"To replenish funds to hold more cancer benefits," said Delaney. "We held one last week and it took just about everything we had."

Saturday, more than 40 teams made up of two to four people paid the $25 per person entry fee.

"And let the community help the community, and this is a very, very giving community," Delaney said.

The Huauni Creek Hunting club plans to make this an annual event. Cash prizes go to the top three heaviest catches, and noodlers are able free to take their fish home or set them free at the end of the evening.

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Court wins expected to bolster gay pride events

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ? Same-sex marriage supporters gathering for gay pride parades in several major U.S. cities got more good news Sunday when Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy denied a last-ditch request from the sponsors of California's now-overturned gay marriage ban to halt the issuance of same-sex marriage licenses in the nation's most populous state.

Kennedy turned away the appeal with no additional comment as the 43rd annual pride parade was getting underway in San Francisco, where dozens of couples have gotten married since Friday and where the clerk's office remained open to issue more licenses on Sunday.

Same-sex marriage opponents asked Kennedy to step in on Saturday, a day after the federal appeals court in San Francisco allowed same-sex marriages to go forward by lifting a hold it had imposed on such unions while a lawsuit challenging the state's voter-approved ban on gay marriage made its way to and through the high court.

The Supreme Court cleared the way for the marriages to resume for the first time in 4 ? years when it ruled Wednesday that Proposition 8's backers lacked standing to defend the 2008 law once California's governor and attorney general refused to do so.

The two couples who sued to overturn Proposition 8 are riding in a contingent organized by San Francisco's city attorney. Newlyweds Kris Perry and Sandy Stier of Berkeley, and Paul Katami and Jeff Zarrillo of Burbank, got married on Friday within hours of the appeals court's action.

Attorney General Kamala Harris, whose decision not to defend the ban helped secure its defeat, also is participating as a grand marshal. Parade organizers planned to hold a VIP reception for couples who have married in San Francisco over the weekend.

San Francisco was not the only city hosting what were expected to be especially well-attended and exuberant gay pride parades following the court's decision in the California case and a second ruling granting gay couples the federal benefits of marriage they were previously denied. Large crowds also gathered in New York, Chicago, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Seattle and St. Louis.

The parade in New York City, where the first pride march was held 44 years ago to mark the one-year anniversary of the Stonewall Inn riots that kicked off the modern gay rights movement, also was a sort of victory lap for Edith Windsor, the 84-year-old widow who challenged the federal Defense of Marriage Act after she was forced to pay $363,053 on the estate of her late wife.

Windsor was picked as a grand marshal of New York's parade months ago and planned to walk up Fifth Avenue during the event.

In Chicago, 25-year-old Catherine Gallagher was part of a massive crowd celebrating the court rulings. It was her first time at the pride parade, and she said high court's decision that says gay married couples should have the same rights as gay ones makes the parade even better.

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Egypt group: 22 million signatures against Morsi

CAIRO (AP) ? The youth group leading the campaign against Egypt's president says it has collected the signatures of 22 million Egyptians who want to remove the Islamist leader.

Mahmoud Badr, a leader of the Tamarod, or rebel, movement said Saturday that 22,134,460 Egyptians have signed the petition demanding President Mohammed Morsi's ouster.

Badr did not say whether there had been an independent audit of the signatures.

Morsi's supporters have long questioned the authenticity of the collected signatures.

The announcement came on the eve of massive protests planned by Tamarod, which started off the campaign saying it wanted to collect more signatures than the some 13 million votes Morsi won in his narrow 2012 victory in the presidential election.

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Syrian army, backed by jets, launches assault on Homs

By Dominic Evans

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces launched a major offensive on Saturday against rebels in Homs, a centre of the two-year-old uprising, in their latest drive to secure an axis connecting Damascus to the Mediterranean.

Activists said jets and mortars had pounded rebel-held areas of the city that have been under siege by Assad's troops for a year, and soldiers fought battles with rebel fighters in several districts.

"Government forces are trying to storm (Homs) from all fronts," said an activist using the name Abu Mohammad.

There were no immediate details of casualties but video footage uploaded by activists showed heavy explosions and white clouds of smoke rising from what they said were rebel districts. Loud, concentrated rounds of gunfire could also be heard.

One clip showed thick black smoke rising from a mosque identified as the 13th-century Khalid ibn al-Walid mosque, on the edge of the Khalidiyah neighborhood.

Syrian state media said the army was "achieving great progress" in Khalidiyah but the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an anti-Assad monitoring group, said there were reports that rebels had destroyed an army tank as troops tried to penetrate the Old City in the centre of Homs.

The attack on Homs follows steady military gains by Assad's forces, backed by Lebanese Hezbollah militants, in villages in Homs province and towns close to the Lebanese border.

Three weeks ago Hezbollah spearheaded Assad's recapture of the border town of Qusair, a former rebel bridgehead for smuggling in guns and fighters. Last week the rebels lost another border town, Tel Kalakh.

Those gains have consolidated Assad's control over a corridor of territory that runs from the capital Damascus through Homs to the traditional heartland of his minority Alawite sect in the mountains overlooking the Mediterranean.

They have also alarmed international supporters of the rebels, leading the United States to announce that it will step up military support. Saudi Arabia has accelerated deliveries of sophisticated weaponry, Gulf sources say.

DERAA VICTORY

The interventions by Sunni Muslim Saudi Arabia, a staunch backer of the mainly Sunni rebels, and Shi'ite Hezbollah highlight how the 27-month-old uprising has divided the Middle East along sectarian lines.

Gulf Arab States, Turkey and Egypt all support the rebels while Shi'ite Iran and Hezbollah are actively helping Assad whose Alawite community - an offshoot of Shi'ite Islam - has dominated Syria for more than four decades.

Sunni Islamist fighters from countries across the Middle East have also flocked to Syria, fighting for the rebels in a war that has killed more than 100,000 people, driven 1.7 million refugees abroad and displaced another 4 million within Syria's borders.

Hopes of holding a U.S. and Russian-backed peace conference have faded, with rebels reluctant to negotiate while they are on the defensive militarily and tensions between Moscow and Washington exacerbating their deep differences over Syria.

The violence has spilled over frontiers and stirred sectarian violence in neighboring Iraq and Lebanon. Two people were killed in Lebanon's northern city of Tripoli on Saturday, one in an explosion and another in sniper fire between the Alawite district of Jebel Mohsen and adjacent Sunni areas.

Despite losing ground around Damascus and Homs, rebels registered a symbolic victory on Friday when they overran a major military checkpoint in Deraa, the southern city where the uprising first erupted.

Rami Abdulrahman, head of the Syrian Observatory, said the fall of the army post was strategically significant and could change the balance of power in Deraa, where rebels control most of the old city.

The province of Deraa, on the border with Jordan, has been a conduit for arms supplies to the rebels.

(Editing by Janet Lawrence and Kevin Liffey)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/syrian-army-backed-jets-launch-homs-assault-122641886.html

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Kickstarter plans North American expansion, launches in Canada this summer

That's right Canucks, Kickstarter's launching in your neck of the woods before the midnight sun sets for the season. The crowdfunding site released a teaser page today, announcing that it'll open up to Canada-based projects later this summer. It's not the first site of its kind to accept submissions from north of the border, but if Indiegogo hasn't been drawing in the results you need, you'll soon be able to give it a go on another platform. The Kickstarter team is mum on an exact launch date, but with a bit less than three months left in summer, the clock is ticking.

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Former senior U.S. general targeted over leak investigation: report

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Retired U.S. General James Cartwright is the target of a Justice Department investigation into the leaking of secret information about the Stuxnet virus attack on Iranian nuclear facilities in 2010, NBC News reported on Thursday, citing unidentified legal sources.

NBC said Cartwright, once the second highest ranking officer in the U.S. military, is being probed over the leaked information about the computer virus, which temporarily disabled 1,000 centrifuges used by Iran to enrich uranium, setting back its nuclear program.

The United States and Western powers believe the Iranian nuclear enrichment program is aimed at building atomic weapons, while Tehran says it is solely for civilian energy purposes.

The New York Times published a detailed account of the Stuxnet program in June last year, in which it said President Barack Obama had decided to accelerate U.S. cyber attacks, which began under former President George W. Bush.

The story was based on 18 months of interviews with "with current and former American, European and Israeli officials involved in the program, as well as a range of outside experts," the Times said in its story.

Cartwright, a four-star general who is now retired, was vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs from 2007 to 2011.

News of the leak investigation came as the United States is trying to persuade Russia to deport American Edward Snowden, a former contractor working at the National Security Agency who disclosed information to two newspapers about secret U.S. government surveillance of internet and phone traffic.

Snowden fled the United States to Hong Kong before the information was made public this month and is now believed to be in the transit area of a Moscow airport.

(Reporting by Douwe Miedema; editing by Christopher Wilson)

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Thirtysomethings and love in Japan

By Ken Y-N ( June 24, 2013 at 01:43) ? Filed under Polls, Rankings

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goo Ranking had an interesting survey on stereotypes of single people in their thirties and looking for love, for both women and men. Note that this time both sexes voted in both the surveys.

Demographics

Between the 2nd and 5th of May 2013 1,088 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 50.2% of the sample were male, 23.3% in their teens, 24.4% in their twenties, 25.5% in their thirties, and 26.8% in their forties; there was no-one older than 49 in this sample. Note that the score in the results refers to the relative number of votes for each option, not a percentage of the total sample.

As someone who was single for half my thirties, I can identify with a lot of them, in particular number 19 for the guys, which was one that did actually come true!

Ranking result

Q1: What stereotypes do you have of single women in their thirties and their love life? (Sample size=1,088)

Rank	?	Score
1=	When they meet an unmarried man over 35 years old they find themselves searching for the reason why he couldn?t get married up to now	100
1=	When a cool guy makes their heart skip a beat, the chances of him being married are high	100
3	Encounters with unnattached guys drastically decrease	71.7
4=	They start planning for a single life	70.9
4=	They are particular about their partner?s appearance, bearing, etc, but put their own character to one side	70.9
6	They no longer can meet guys who click	69.3
7	They end up judging on first encounters whether guys are Yes or No	59.8
8	They end up checking the ring finger of guys they meet at/through work	56.7
9	Compared to their twenties, invites to dating parties almost completely dry up	53.2
10	When they start a relationship they think ?this might be my last chance??, and put a bit more effort into it	49.6
11	They worry that there might not be any nice guys around the same age left	48.0
12	They change to prefering younger men instead of older	47.2
13=	They concentrate their effort on their hobbies, work, etc at the expense of their love life	45.7
13=	They stop visiting their parents as they have got annoyed with their ?Not married yet??, ?You?ve not found a nice man??, etc	45.7
13=	Since they took their last break-up particularly hard, they have become cowards towards romance	45.7
13=	When they go to a dating party almost all the guys are younger	45.7
17	Thinking ?What kind of guy really does suit me?? they lose understanding of their own preferences	43.3
18	If they don?t take action themselves, love will not develop	38.6
19=	Their friends stop introducing them to guys	37.0
19=	It becomes troublesome for them to make moves on guys	37.0
21=	They get depressed when they see Facebook friends posting about their marriage and births	33.9
21=	They believe that their fated love does exist somewhere on Earth	33.9
21=	They cannot take the plunge into marriage as they feel they want to enjoy being single for just a little while more	33.9
21=	Playing cute and innocent as they did in their twenties no longer works	3.9
25=	Despite their best efforts, guys who don?t want to marry don?t develop the relationship	33.1
25=	They get depressed when they dredge up memories of past boyfriends and realise they can never again regain that feeling	33.1
25=	When they go out for a meal with younger guys they start wondering ?Could he fancy me??	33.1
28	They spend more time with their mother than their boyfriends	29.9
29	Compared to their twenties, they look for safe rather than exciting guys	29.1
30	When love isn?t going the way they thought, they distract themselves by immersing themselves in work	25.2
31=	Although when they meet married friends they do nothing but moan about being single, they cannot get into the mood for marrying	24.4
31=	When younger guys buy them a meal they wonder if there could be a nuance of romance	24.4
33	As they pay more attention to their appearance than when in their twenties, bills for beauty treatment start to build up	22.0
34	As there is no time to waste, they themselves soon declare their love	17.3
35	As they have less confidence in their skin than when in their twenties, they try to select darker places for dates	15.7

Q2: What stereotypes do you have of single men in their thirties and their love life? (Sample size=1,088)

Rank	?	Score
1	Encounters with unnattached women drastically decrease	100
2	When they meet an unmarried woman in their thirties they find themselves searching for the reason why she couldn?t get married up to now	97.4
3	They are particular about their partner?s appearance, bearing, etc, but put their own character to one side	79.2
4	They no longer can meet girls who click	74.0
5	When an elegant women makes their heart skip a beat, the chances of her being married are high	71.5
6=	They start planning for a single life	67.5
6=	They end up checking the ring finger of women they meet at/through work	67.5
8	It becomes troublesome for them to make moves on girls	63.6
9	They concentrate their effort on their hobbies, work, etc at the expense of their love life	62.3
10	They end up judging on first encounters whether girls are Yes or No	61.0
11	Thinking ?What kind of girl really does suit me?? they lose understanding of their own preferences	59.7
12=	When they start a relationship they think ?this might be my last chance??, and put a bit more effort into it	57.1
12=	Compared to their twenties, invites to dating parties almost completely dry up	57.1
14	They cannot take the plunge into marriage as they feel they want to enjoy being single for just a little while more	54.5
15	They change to prefering younger women instead of older	53.2
16	Compared to their twenties, they look for safe rather than exciting women	51.9
17	Their friends stop introducing them to women	46.8
18	Since they took their last break-up particularly hard, they have become cowards towards romance	45.5
19	They believe that their fated love does exist somewhere on Earth	44.2
20=	Despite their best efforts, women who don?t want to marry don?t develop the relationship	41.6
20=	Although when they meet married friends they do nothing but moan about being single, they cannot get into the mood for marrying	41.6
22	They get depressed when they dredge up memories of past girlfriends and realise they can never again regain that feeling	40.3
23	When they go out for a meal with younger women they start wondering ?Could she fancy me??	37.7
24	They worry that there might not be any nice women around the same age left	33.8
25	They get depressed when they see Facebook friends posting about their marriage and births	32.5

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Edward Snowden In A 'Safe Place' As U.S. Prepares To Seek Extradition

By Phil Stewart
WASHINGTON, June 22 (Reuters) - Edward Snowden was in a "safe place" in Hong Kong, a newspaper reported on Saturday, as the United States prepared to seek the extradition of the former U.S. National Security Agency contractor after filing espionage charges against him.
The South China Morning Post said Snowden, who has exposed secret U.S. surveillance programs including new details published on Saturday about alleged hacking of Chinese phone companies, was not in police protection in Hong Kong, as had been reported elsewhere.
"Contrary to some reports, the former CIA analyst has not been detained, is not under police protection but is in a 'safe place' in Hong Kong," the newspaper said.
Hong Kong Police Commissioner Andy Tsang declined to comment other than to say Hong Kong would deal with the case in accordance with the law.
Two U.S. sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the United States was preparing to seek Snowden's extradition from Hong Kong, which is part of China but has wide-ranging autonomy, including an independent judiciary.
The United States charged Snowden with theft of government property, unauthorized communication of national defense information and willful communication of classified communications intelligence to an unauthorized person, according to the criminal complaint made public on Friday.
The latter two offenses fall under the U.S. Espionage Act and carry penalties of up to 10 years in prison.
America's use of the Espionage Act against Snowden has fueled debate among legal experts about whether that could complicate his extradition, since Hong Kong courts may choose to shield him.
Snowden says he leaked the details of the classified U.S. surveillance to expose abusive programs that trampled on citizens' rights.
Documents leaked by Snowden revealed that the NSA has access to vast amounts of internet data such as emails, chat rooms and video from large companies such as Facebook and Google, under a government program known as Prism.
They also showed that the government had worked through the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to gather so-called metadata - such as the time, duration and telephone numbers called - on all calls carried by service providers such as Verizon.
On Friday, the Guardian newspaper, citing documents shared by Snowden, said Britain's spy agency GCHQ had tapped fiber-optic cables that carry international phone and internet traffic and is sharing vast quantities of personal information with the NSA.

STEALING DATA
The South China Morning Post said on Saturday that Snowden offered new details on U.S. surveillance activities in China.
The paper said documents and statements by Snowden show the NSA program had hacked major Chinese telecoms companies to access text messages and targeted China's top Tsinghua University.
The NSA program also hacked the Hong Kong headquarters of Pacnet, which has an extensive fiber-optic network, it said.
"The NSA does all kinds of things like hack Chinese cellphone companies to steal all of your SMS data," Snowden was quoted by the Post as saying during a June 12 interview.
President Barack Obama and his intelligence chiefs have vigorously defended the programs, saying they are regulated by law and that Congress was notified. They say the programs have been used to thwart militant plots and do not target Americans' personal lives.
Since making his revelations about massive U.S. surveillance programs, Edward Snowden, 30, has sought legal representation from human rights lawyers as he prepares to fight U.S. attempts to force him home for trial, sources in Hong Kong say.
The United States and Hong Kong signed an extradition treaty in 1998, under which scores of Americans have been sent back home to face trial.
The United States and Hong Kong have "excellent cooperation" and as a result of agreements, "there is an active extradition relationship between Hong Kong and the United States," a U.S. law enforcement official told Reuters.
However, the process can take years, lawyers say, and Snowden's case could be particularly complex.
An Icelandic businessman linked to the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks said on Thursday he had readied a private plane in China to fly Snowden to Iceland if Iceland's government would grant asylum.
Iceland refused on Friday to say whether it would grant asylum to Snowden. (Reporting by Phil Stewart; Additional reporting by James Pomfret, Venus Wu and Grace Li in HONG KONG, Tabassum Zakaria and Mark Hosenball in WASHINGTON; Editing by Eric Beech)

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Arianna Huffington: Sunday Roundup

This week, the NBA Finals came down to a breath-taking final game, with LeBron and the Heat ultimately repeating as champs -- while, in DC, the Supreme Court pushed its ruling on gay marriage to the SCOTUS equivalent of a Game 7 (here's hoping legal superstars David Boies and Ted Olson take home the MVP trophy). As we also wait for the High Court's ruling on Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, a different ghost of the pre-civil rights South reared its ugly head, with Paula Deen losing her job for using "the N-word" and planning a "plantation-style" wedding for her brother. Meanwhile, the name for Kim and Kanye's baby is no longer pending. Some questioned their parenting compass after they went with a compass pun, but at least they didn't go with "Yeezus."

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Russian NGO forcibly evicted from Moscow office

MOSCOW (AP) ? Law enforcement agents forcibly evicted the head of one of Russia's leading human rights groups and about a half dozen others from his Moscow office early Saturday, in the latest attack on a Russian non-governmental organization.

Lev Ponomaryov, 72, who heads For Human Rights, said he was beaten all over his body when security forces stormed the building at around 2 a.m. and dragged him out. Dozens of riot police had raided the office on Friday and ordered employees to leave, but they had refused.

Russia's human rights ombudsman, Vladimir Lukin, said the NGO was evicted illegally from the city-owned property. The organization has had difficulties extending the lease, but Lukin said it had the right to remain until the issue was resolved in court.

The U.S. democracy watchdog Freedom House condemned the "violent assault" and called on the international community to "register its strong opposition to such thuggish tactics."

For Human Rights is one of hundreds of Russian non-governmental organizations that have come under pressure in recent months as part of President Vladimir Putin's crackdown on dissent following unprecedented street protests last year.

Many organizations have been raided to check compliance with a new law that requires all NGOs that receive foreign funding and engage in vaguely defined political activities to register as foreign agents, a term that carries Cold War connotations of spying. Putin has accused the U.S. State Department of funding Russian NGOs with the aim of undermining his government.

Ponomaryov, with what appeared to be a bruise under his left eye, returned to the street outside his office on Saturday afternoon to speak with supporters. He said doctors had counted dozens of small bruises on his body as the result of a "rapid-fire beating" as he was being dragged across the floor.

Moscow police said its officers were at the scene, but the forced eviction was carried out by a private security firm. Sergei Mitrokhin, the leader of the liberal Yabloko party, who was among those evicted, said the operation was directed by a man in plainclothes who appeared to be a security services officer, the Gazeta.ru news portal reported.

Amnesty International said it sent a representative to Ponomaryov's office on Friday to observe the raid.

"In Russia, we have witnessed how authorities are using every trick in the box to stop human rights activists criticizing their policies," the group said in a statement. "The attempt to evict For Human Rights from publicly owned offices seems to be yet another attempt to block their important human rights work."

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/russian-ngo-forcibly-evicted-moscow-office-121338410.html

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fun., One Direction, more?to rock TODAY this summer

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The indie pop band fun.will kick off the 2013 Toyota Concert Series on TODAY on May 24.

This summer, TODAY will once again put the rock in Rockefeller Plaza, bringing together the hottest hit-makers for its 18th annual summer concert series.

There?s no better way to officially kick off summer than with some fun -- the indie pop band fun., that is. On Friday, May 24, in their first-ever TODAY concert, the Grammy award winners will be turning ?Some Nights? into one great morning.

This year?s lineup also includes One Direction and Chris Brown, two veteran TODAY sensations who brought record-setting crowds in previous plaza performances. The 2013 series also features rock bands Maroon 5, Train and Fall Out Boy as well as singer-songwriters John Mayer, Michael Buble, Phillip Phillips and Ed Sheeran. In addition, boy bands New Kids on the Block, 98 Degrees, and Boyz II Men will join forces in one blow-out concert, and Lionel Richie will surely have the crowd "Dancing on the Ceiling." The concert series also brings bright country music stars to the morning show stage with The Band Perry, Hunter Hayes and Luke Bryan.

Here's a list of concerts scheduled to date. Tweet out your favorites using the hashtags below! All concerts are Friday performances unless otherwise noted.

MAY
24 FUN, #FunTODAY
31 NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK/ 98 DEGREES/ BOYZ II MEN, #NKOTBTODAY

JUNE
7 LIONEL RICHIE, #LionelTODAY
14 MAROON 5, #Maroon5TODAY
21 HUNTER HAYES, #HunterTODAY
28 PHILLIP PHILLIPS, #PhillipTODAY

JULY
5 JOHN MAYER, #JohnMayerTODAY
12 ED SHEERAN, #EdSheeranTODAY
19 FALL OUT BOY, #FallOutBoyTODAY
26 TRAIN, #TrainTODAY

AUGUST
2 THE BAND PERRY, #BandPerryTODAY
9 MICHAEL BUBLE, #BubleTODAY
16 LUKE BRYAN, #LukeBryanTODAY
23 ONE DIRECTION, #1DTODAY
30 CHRIS BROWN, #ChrisBrownTODAY

Additional performances may be announced throughout the season.

Fans and visitors are encouraged to come to the plaza for the live performances. Viewing is on a first-come, first-served basis outside TODAY's window-on-the-world studio, located at 49th Street and Rockefeller Plaza in New York City. Fans should arrive by 6 a.m. for best viewing.

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Unethical advertising at launch of antidepressants

Public release date: 2-May-2013
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Contact: Shai Mulinari
Shai.mulinari@genus.lu.se
46-737-343-316
Lund University

The new feature of the antidepressant drugs of the 1990s was that they had milder side-effects than their predecessors. Combined with aggressive marketing, this meant that annual sales in Sweden increased from just under EUR 18 million to over EUR 100 million in the space of just a few years.

Most countries have an established system for self-regulation of pharmaceuticals advertising. Sweden has been held up internationally as a good example. The Swedish pharmaceutical industry's trade organisation appoints an information examiner to monitor the marketing to ensure it doesn't violate established ethical guidelines. There is also a board appointed by the industry that deals with complaints. Misleading advertising usually results in a fine.

"The system of self-regulation was established in 1969 in Sweden, but this is the first academic study of how it really works", says Shai Mulinari, who is a researcher in both social sciences and biomedicine.

Together with a colleague, he has gone through all the advertising for antidepressants published in the professional journal for doctors, The Swedish Medical Journal, between 1994 and 2003. In the study, they found that 34 per cent of all adverts had been judged as misleading by the industry's self-regulation system.

"The figure should really have been even higher because we discovered that a large amount of misleading advertising had passed through the review process unnoticed. For example, many advertisements that were not picked up contained exaggerated claims about the effects of the drugs", said Shai Mulinari.

The fact that one third of all advertising failed the review process can, on the one hand, be regarded as a sign that the industry's self-regulation functions fairly well. On the other hand, in Shai Mulinari's view, the system can be perceived as toothless:

"The consequences of being convicted were marginal. In total, only 0.009 per cent of sales revenue went to fines for unethical marketing", he said.

Today, the level of the fines has been raised, but Shai Mulinari still believes there is reason to look more closely at how well the industry's self-regulation of advertising really works.

For example, according to the Lund University study it took an average of 15 weeks from the publication of the unethical advertising to the announcement of a verdict. During that time, the advertisement could in theory have been published in the journal 15 times. Another problem identified by the researchers was that only 12 per cent of the reports were initiated by doctors and only 8 per cent by the Medical Products Agency. In other cases, it was business competitors who reported one another or the reports were initiated by the industry's information examiner.

"It is important that doctors and the Medical Products Agency report impropriety, otherwise all responsibility is placed on the industry", said Shai Mulinari, who thinks the review process for the pharmaceutical industry's marketing is discussed far too little in Sweden compared with many other countries.

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Contact: Shai Mulinari
Shai.mulinari@genus.lu.se
46-737-343-316
Lund University

The new feature of the antidepressant drugs of the 1990s was that they had milder side-effects than their predecessors. Combined with aggressive marketing, this meant that annual sales in Sweden increased from just under EUR 18 million to over EUR 100 million in the space of just a few years.

Most countries have an established system for self-regulation of pharmaceuticals advertising. Sweden has been held up internationally as a good example. The Swedish pharmaceutical industry's trade organisation appoints an information examiner to monitor the marketing to ensure it doesn't violate established ethical guidelines. There is also a board appointed by the industry that deals with complaints. Misleading advertising usually results in a fine.

"The system of self-regulation was established in 1969 in Sweden, but this is the first academic study of how it really works", says Shai Mulinari, who is a researcher in both social sciences and biomedicine.

Together with a colleague, he has gone through all the advertising for antidepressants published in the professional journal for doctors, The Swedish Medical Journal, between 1994 and 2003. In the study, they found that 34 per cent of all adverts had been judged as misleading by the industry's self-regulation system.

"The figure should really have been even higher because we discovered that a large amount of misleading advertising had passed through the review process unnoticed. For example, many advertisements that were not picked up contained exaggerated claims about the effects of the drugs", said Shai Mulinari.

The fact that one third of all advertising failed the review process can, on the one hand, be regarded as a sign that the industry's self-regulation functions fairly well. On the other hand, in Shai Mulinari's view, the system can be perceived as toothless:

"The consequences of being convicted were marginal. In total, only 0.009 per cent of sales revenue went to fines for unethical marketing", he said.

Today, the level of the fines has been raised, but Shai Mulinari still believes there is reason to look more closely at how well the industry's self-regulation of advertising really works.

For example, according to the Lund University study it took an average of 15 weeks from the publication of the unethical advertising to the announcement of a verdict. During that time, the advertisement could in theory have been published in the journal 15 times. Another problem identified by the researchers was that only 12 per cent of the reports were initiated by doctors and only 8 per cent by the Medical Products Agency. In other cases, it was business competitors who reported one another or the reports were initiated by the industry's information examiner.

"It is important that doctors and the Medical Products Agency report impropriety, otherwise all responsibility is placed on the industry", said Shai Mulinari, who thinks the review process for the pharmaceutical industry's marketing is discussed far too little in Sweden compared with many other countries.

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Roadside bomb kills three British soldiers, nine Afghans

LONDON (Reuters) - Three British soldiers have been killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan, Britain's Defence Ministry said on Wednesday, in the deadliest single attack on the British military there in more than a year.

Nine Afghans were also killed in Tuesday's explosion that hit the soldiers' vehicle while it was on a routine patrol in Nahr-e Saraj district in the southern province of Helmand.

Another six British soldiers were wounded in the blast, which occurred two days after the Islamist Taliban movement launched its spring offensive, saying it would target foreign military bases and diplomatic areas.

"We have paid a very high price for the work we're doing in Afghanistan," Prime Minister David Cameron said in a morning interview on ITV television.

"It is important work because it's vital that country doesn't again become a haven for terrorists, terrorists that can threaten us here in the UK."

The three British soldiers were the first to be killed by an attack while travelling in a Mastiff, an armored vehicle designed to withstand roadside bombs and sent to Afghanistan after a debate about whether previous equipment was adequate.

"Their deaths come as a great loss to all those serving in Task Force Helmand," said Major Richard Morgan, a spokesman for the task force. Their families have been informed.

A total of 444 British soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan since Britain's military involvement there began in October 2001, including six this year.

British troops are handing over security operations to Afghan forces and are due to end combat operations in Afghanistan by the end of next year.

(Reporting by Estelle Shirbon; Editing by Alistair Lyon)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/three-british-soldiers-killed-afghan-attack-065733524.html

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Allergan delays drug that would rival Regeneron's Eylea

By Esha Dey and Ransdell Pierson

(Reuters) - Allergan Inc said approval of its Darpin eye drug could be delayed up to two years, providing a new boost to Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc whose successful treatment, Eylea, stands to gain from a lack of new competition.

Shares of Allergan, which makes wrinkle treatment Botox, fell 13.1 percent after the company said mid-stage trial results of Darpin did not warrant an immediate move into far larger late-stage trials. Regeneron shares closed up 10.3 percent.

If eventually approved, Darpin would also compete with Roche Holding AG's, Lucentis, to treat age-related macular degeneration - the most common form of blindness in the elderly.

Adnan Butt, an analyst with RBC Capital Markets, said Darpin's delay was "great news" for Regeneron. He noted that Wall Street had feared the Allergan drug might have a superior clinical profile to Eylea.

"This gives Eylea even more time to become entrenched as the drug to beat," Butt said.

He estimates that each year of Darpin delay will translate into an upside of about $15 to $20 for Regeneron shares, now trading at about $240.

Eylea, which was approved in November 2011, had sales last year of $838 million. Regeneron expects 2013 Eylea sales of $1.2 billion to $1.3 billion. Company officials would not comment on the setback for Allergan's drug.

Regeneron is expected to report first quarter results on Friday and could update its sales projections.

Allergan Chief Executive David Pyott said on a conference call that a mid-stage trial of Darpin showed some product differentiation over Lucentis, but did not support directly moving to late-stage development.

The company now plans to perform additional mid-stage trials to assess Darpin, which will delay its potential approval by one to two years.

"There was a rush to ascribe a lot of value to Darpin and our view is that this is still very much an unproven asset with limited data," Piper Jaffray analyst David Amsellem said.

"The earliest it could get to market now is likely 2019," Amsellem said. "If you couple that with the setback of the hair loss product, the late-stage pipeline for Allergan right now is really quite thin."

A mid-stage trial of Allergan's hair loss treatment Bimatoprost Scalp also failed to provide sufficient efficacy to proceed to a late-stage study, further weighing on company shares.

ROOM TO GROW

Regeneron in the past two years has vaulted seemingly out of nowhere to become one of the world's biggest biotechnology companies, thanks largely to Eylea.

The company has repeatedly raised its sales forecasts for the drug, which is injected into the eye, as it steadily steals market share from Lucentis.

Some specialty pharmacies also use Roche's Avastin cancer drug, which works the same way as Lucentis, but is far less expensive, when divided into smaller portions for treating macular degeneration.

Roche has said that dividing Avastin through a procedure not closely monitored by health regulators, called compounding, could compromise its sterility.

Regeneron Chief Executive Leonard Schleifer said in a recent interview that sales of Eylea could jump sharply if potential rivals stumble, or if U.S. regulators clamp down on the compounding of Avastin for eye use.

Moreover, he said some analysts believe Eylea sales could swell if it is approved for a new indication called diabetic macular edema now in late-stage trials. Lucentis is already approved for the condition.

"So Eylea is a growth story unto itself, with lots of room to still grow," Schleifer said.

Allergan on Wednesday also posted a higher-than-expected quarterly profit, helped by strong sales of Botox.

Net income for the first quarter fell to $12.5 million, or 4 cents per share, due to a loss of $259 million from discontinued operations. Profit was $229.8 million, or 74 cents per share, a year earlier.

Excluding special items, Allergan earned 98 cents per share. Analysts were expecting 96 cents, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.

Global company sales rose 8 percent to $1.46 billion, above Wall Street's average estimate of $1.44 billion.

Sales of Botox, which is also approved for treating migraine headaches, overactive bladder and underarm sweating, rose 15 percent to $457.9 million.

Allergan said it now expects 2013 adjusted earnings of $4.70 to $4.76 per share, compared with its prior outlook of $4.75 to $4.83 a share.

The company forecast a second-quarter profit of $1.18 to $1.20 per share, below analysts' average estimate of $1.22 a share. The new forecasts reflect the impact of its MAP Pharmaceuticals acquisition earlier this year.

Allergan shares fell $14.88 to $98.67 on the New York Stock Exchange, while Regeneron shares rose $25.15 to $237.29.

(Reporting by Esha Dey in Bangalore and Bill Berkrot in New York; Editing by Michele Gershberg, Sreejiraj Eluvangal, Carol Bishopric and Andre Grenon)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/allergan-delays-drug-rival-regenerons-eylea-185323020.html

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