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Wednesday, December 28, 2011
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[Globe and Mail] - NHL: Maple Leafs give coach Ron Wilson contract extension
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Tuesday, December 27, 2011
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2011-12 Timberwolves preview: New coach is worth a howl
There is -- quite possibly for the first time since Latrell Sprewell wondered aloud just how he would feed his family on $21 million -- a buzz crackling and humming around these Timberwolves.
You can feel it after so many seasons of indifference at Target Center, where more than 12,000 people gathered for a preseason game and 2,500 arrived for a free, lunch-hour scrimmage.
You can sense it on your Facebook page, where one friend proudly posts a cellphone photo of herself posed with Spanish sensation Ricky Rubio at Seven in downtown Minneapolis on a Saturday night.
Yes, it's true the beauty of sports means every season brings optimism, but ...
"People say things will be better every year because you don't expect to be bad, ever," Wolves forward Anthony Tolliver said. "But at the end of the day, I know some things for a fact: Everybody has a different attitude coming in this year than we did the last."
There are many reasons Tolliver claims to know what he knows, the arrival of Rubio and Derrick Williams among them. But foremost is one that Tolliver expresses simply by pointing across the practice floor, his finger directed at new coach Rick Adelman.
"That guy right over there," he said.
"That guy" ranks eighth on the NBA's all-time list of coaching winners, and his 945 career victories with Portland, Golden State, Sacramento and Houston are 240 more than the Wolves have won in their entire history.
David Kahn's 2 1/2 years as Wolves president of basketball operations have had their share of suspect moves, but his patient recruiting of Adelman to replace fired and failed Kurt Rambis was September's slam-dunk punctuation mark on a transformational summer, one where Kahn also signed Rubio after a two-year courtship and picked Williams second in the June draft.
First impressions
With one unexpected move, Adelman's signing for $5 million a year brought the franchise something it has lacked since Kevin Garnett starred for it.
In a word: credibility.
"You start with the head coach and by going with Rick Adelman, the sky is the limit," said NBA TV analyst Chris Webber, who played six-plus seasons for Adelman on Sacramento teams that battled the Lakers and Garnett's Wolves in the playoffs.
So when Adelman spoke to his new players for the first time, they listened to a brutally honest man whose teams became known for their efficient, effective ball movement and underrated for their defense.
He wrote on a marker board the telling details of last year's 17-victory season and ticked off evidence -- points allowed, assist-to-turnover ratio, etc. -- simply pulled directly from the 30-team league's stats.
"It wasn't hard," Adelman said. "It was 30th in a lot of areas."
He also presented evidence culled from a specialized scouting service that showed last season's team on average ran the court from offense to defense more than a second slower than it did the other way around.
"A whole second? In our league, you got no chance," said assistant coach Terry Porter, who helped compile the talking points Adelman offered that first day. "You could tell by the looks on guys' faces that it was something they'd never realized before."
Forward Michael Beasley summarized Adelman's introductory address as "what we did wrong, the few things we did right last year and the things we won't do this year" delivered by a man he calls "quiet," a "straight shooter" and a man with a unique voice who makes his point heard at any volume.
"We can hear him," Beasley said. "It's something we got instilled in our brains. As soon as he talks, you hear him a mile away."
Speak softly and ...
That voice -- "A little raspy," Beasley said -- sounds like a 65-year-old who has spent a lifetime yelling too much, except for one thing:
"I've never been like that," Adelman said. "I can't yell. I don't have the voice for it. There's always a time and place for that. You try and pick and choose so that when you do it, they're very aware that something's gone wrong. You can reach people the other way, too.
"You can reach them individually. You can reach them as a team. It's just a trust you have to build as the season goes on. You don't have to yell."
Not even when his children were small?
"Well, on occasion," his son R.J., the Wolves' director of player personnel and game preparation, said with a grin. "Every coach has his own style. He just is who he is. If you're going to coach in this league and you're trying to be someone you're not, players see right through that. If you watch practice, when he speaks, they're listening because he speaks in a very honest, very specific way.
"The bottom line is, he knows what he's doing. His coaching style is reflective of his personality. He's not going to change and he shouldn't, because obviously he has been successful wherever he has gone."
Louder than words
His teams have made the playoffs 16 of his first 20 seasons as an NBA head coach. Those teams have won 50 or more games 11 times in those 20 seasons. The only place he didn't win was at Golden State, a two-year stop in the mid-1990s that he said taught him a coach needs talent.
Webber said Adelman's coaching style "empowers" players with its freedoms while also demanding "personal responsibility."
"If you're open and don't shoot it, you're going to come out of the game," Webber said. "He knows Minnesota isn't going to win a championship anytime soon. What he will do is work on the personality, the character and the play of his team, and he will build for the future. He's a unique coach in that he can take a team to a championship, and he's also one of the first guys to call to build a team that hasn't done so well. He's prepared for success."
Those 945 victories, two trips with the Trail Blazers to the NBA Finals and a .633 winning percentage with a Sacramento team that never could get past the Lakers in the playoffs speak louder for him with players than that nasally voice ever will.
"We listen and he tells us what he thinks and wants us to do, and we either do it and are successful or we don't do it," Tolliver said. "It's a pretty simple conclusion. I guess it's like that with all coaches, but it's a different level when you're talking about a coach who's gone out and won 900-some games in his career.
"It's kind of hard to sit back and say, 'That's not right' with him. You have to listen and you better listen, because his record speaks for itself."
Source: http://www.startribune.com/sports/wolves/136211758.html
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Monday, December 26, 2011
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Facebook CSI Game App: Dr. Matz discusses science fiction and reality in the biology of AVATAR. Life Science Library?s Science Study Break program will wrap up its season on Wednesday with an examination of James Cameron?s most recent blockbuster Avatar. Dr. Misha Matz of the School of Biological Sciences will decipher biological fact from fantasy in the world of the film AVATAR, examining real life science behind the science fiction. Pop culture and the academy collide as Science Study Break features relevant faculty and experts from The University of Texas at Austin discussing the reality and fantasy portrayed as fact in science-themed books, television and film. Past presentations have featured presentations on bioterrorism and its treatment in the Fox thriller ?24,? artificial intelligence gone wild in ?2001: A Space Odyssey,? the comic realities of Spider-Man and epidemiological models for the proliferation of zombies. Science Study Break occurs twice each semester and is generously supported by the University Federal Credit Union.
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Children bring toys to church to be blessed
It?s difficult to pry children away from their new toys and gifts Christmas morning, especially after waiting all year for Santa to stop by and reward those who were nice.
But at Queen Street United Methodist Church Sunday, children?s Christmas gifts were the focus of the day?s sermon.
Children were asked to bring their favorite Christmas gift for the first ever Blessing of the Toys service, led by Director of Children Ministries Bridges Baker.
?It?s rare that Christmas falls on Sunday, so we just figured it was a nice way to have a casual service and to bring the focus of all the gifts that the children and we received today back to Christ, the reason for the season,? Baker said. ?Kids don?t want to leave their toys behind and so they could bring a toy with them and come in their pajamas.?
As children held and wore their favorite presents, Baker explained to the congregation the reason people exchange gifts on Christmas is because the Three Wise Men gave baby Jesus gold, frankincense and myrrh.
Rickey Howard, 10, brought his Angry Birds ? a popular game played primarily on cell phones ? hooded blanket to church to be blessed.
?I love Angry Birds,? Rickey said while wearing his new Christmas gift.? ?My mom likes to play it on her (cell phone).
Rickey?s older sister Amy said she received everything she wanted for Christmas and decided to bring her most entertaining present to church.
?I got a chicken hat,? Amy said of her headwear shaped like a hen. ?I didn?t ask for it, but I got it anyway? I asked for clothes and books.?
Baker said the church had planned to hold the special service last year, but foul weather got in the way.
?This is the first year we have done it here, we will probably continue it,? Baker said. ?It is something I had heard of at other churches in the past. ? We were going to do it last year, but it snowed and so our church services were canceled. This year was just a great time to do it since it fell right on Christmas Day.?
Baker said she looks forward to hold future Blessing of the Toys services to keep the day centered on Jesus, ?the greatest gift ever given.?
?Gifts are an important part of Christmas, and play is an important gift from God,? she said. ?They should be honored and given in his name and not just the name of commercialism or anything like that.
?We just want to point it back to Christ, because that?s where it all comes from.?
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Jane Moon can be reached at 252-559-1082 or jmoon@freedomenc.com.
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Source: http://www.kinston.com/news/toys-78775-blessed-bring.html
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Sunday, December 25, 2011
George Michael thanks hospital for saving life
British singer George Michael leaves his house in north London, Friday, Dec. 23, 2011. George Michael, short of breath and appearing weak, said Friday he has recovered from a life-threatening bout with pneumonia that kept him in a Vienna hospital for a month.(AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
British singer George Michael leaves his house in north London, Friday, Dec. 23, 2011. George Michael, short of breath and appearing weak, said Friday he has recovered from a life-threatening bout with pneumonia that kept him in a Vienna hospital for a month.(AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
British singer George Michael leaves his house in north London, Friday, Dec. 23, 2011. George Michael, short of breath and appearing weak, said Friday he has recovered from a life-threatening bout with pneumonia that kept him in a Vienna hospital for a month. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
British singer George Michael leaves his house in north London, Friday, Dec. 23, 2011. George Michael, short of breath and appearing weak, said Friday he has recovered from a life-threatening bout with pneumonia that kept him in a Vienna hospital for a month. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
British singer George Michael leaves his house in north London, Friday, Dec. 23, 2011. George Michael, short of breath and appearing weak, said Friday he has recovered from a life-threatening bout with pneumonia that kept him in a Vienna hospital for a month.(AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
LONDON (AP) ? Fighting back tears, singer George Michael appeared outside his London home Friday to acknowledge that he had nearly died during his monthlong battle with pneumonia.
He said it had been "touch and go" while he was in the intensive care unit of a Vienna hospital battling an extremely dangerous form of pneumonia but that his representatives had "played it down" to avoid alarming his fans.
"They spent three weeks keeping me alive basically," said the singer, who appeared to have lost weight during his ordeal. "I don't want to take you through all of it because some of it I want to protect my family from and I'm sure I'll get it all written down but it was by far the worst month of my life."
He seemed short of breath and at times had trouble speaking during his 10-minute appearance.
"I'm very weak but I feel amazing," the pop star said, wearing a gray overcoat and scarf as he stood in front of a decorated Christmas tree outside his imposing red brick home in the Highgate neighborhood of north London.
The singer behind hits such as "Careless Whisper", "Faith" and "Father Figure" said the experience would make him more spiritual and appreciative of his life.
"I have an amazing, amazing life and if I wasn't spiritual enough before the last four five weeks then I certainly am now," he said.
Michael seemed overcome with emotion as he expressed gratitude for being alive and thanked the medical staff in Vienna for taking such good care of him.
"I really, really, really, really, from the bottom of my heart, thank everybody who sent messages and everybody in that IC unit that made sure I'm still here today," Michael said.
Michael did not provide many medical details about his illness, which forced him to cancel an extensive European tour.
He had streptococcus pneumonia, a bacterial form of the disease that can sometimes lead to fatal complications.
Michael spoke about having "woken up" 10 days ago, implying that he had been in a coma.
He also revealed he had undergone a tracheotomy while in the hospital. This treatment would have helped him to breathe.
"I spent the last 10 days since I woke up literally thanking people for saving my life which is something I have never had to do before and never want to do again," he said.
Michael, 48, had been rushed to AKH Hospital in Vienna late last month after canceling a performance in the Austrian capital. He was released from the hospital Thursday and was deemed fit enough to fly to London, his primary home.
During his hospital stay, some London newspapers reported that he was gravely ill even as the singer's publicists said he was improving. Michael's personal account of his illness Friday seemed to support the newspaper claims that he had been in a life-threatening situation.
Very few details were released during his hospital stay, although Michael's doctors did say publicly he is not suffering from any underlying medical problems.
Michael vowed to resume his career and perform for everyone who had a ticket for his canceled shows. He also said he wants to play one show for the doctors who worked so hard to keep him alive.
"I'm incredibly, incredibly fortunate to be here and incredibly fortunate to have picked up this bug where I did because apparently the hospital in Austria that they rushed me to was absolutely the best place in the world I could have been to deal with pneumonia, so I have to believe that somebody thinks I've still got some work to do here," Michael said.
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(AP)
Islam is not a religion nor is it a cult. It is a complete system.
Islam has religious, legal, political, economic and military components. The religious component is a beard for all the other components.
Islam has religious, legal, political, economic and military components. The religious component is a beard for all the other components.
Islamization occurs when there are sufficient Muslims in a country to agitate for their so-called ?religious rights.?
When politically correct and culturally diverse societies agree to ?the reasonable? Muslim demands for their ?religious rights,? they also get the other components under the table. Here?s how it works (percentages source CIA: The World Fact Book (2007)).
As long as the Muslim population remains around 1% of any given country they will be regarded as a peace-loving minority and not as a threat to anyone. In fact, they may be featured in articles and films, stereotyped for their colorful uniqueness:
United States ? Muslim 1.0%
Australia ? Muslim 1.5%
Canada ? Muslim 1.9%
China ? Muslim 1%-2%
Italy ? Muslim 1.5%
Norway ? Muslim 1.8%
At 2% and 3% they begin to proselytize from other ethnic minorities and disaffected groups with major recruiting from the jails and among street gangs:
Denmark ? Muslim 2%
Germany ? Muslim 3.7%
United Kingdom ? Muslim 2.7%
Spain ? Muslim 4%
Thailand ? Muslim 4.6%
From 5% on they exercise an inordinate influence in proportion to their percentage of the population.
They will push for the introduction of halal (clean by Islamic standards) food, thereby securing food preparation jobs for Muslims. They will increase pressure on supermarket chains to feature it on their shelves ? along with threats for failure to comply. ( United States ).
France ? Muslim 8%
Philippines ? Muslim 5%
Sweden ? Muslim 5%
Switzerland ? Muslim 4.3%
The Netherlands ? Muslim 5.5%
Trinidad &Tobago ? Muslim 5.8%
At this point, they will work to get the ruling government to allow them to rule themselves under Sharia, the Islamic Law. The ultimate goal of Islam is not to convert the world but to establish Sharia law over the entire world.
When Muslims reach 10% of the population, they will increase lawlessness as a means of complaint about their conditions ( Paris ?car-burnings). Any non-Muslim action that offends Islam will result in uprisings and threats ( Amsterdam ? Mohammed cartoons).
Guyana ? Muslim 10%
India ? Muslim 13.4%
Israel ? Muslim 16%
Kenya ? Muslim 10%
Russia ? Muslim 10-15%
After reaching 20% expect hair-trigger rioting, jihad militia formations, sporadic killings and church and synagogue burning:
Ethiopia ? Muslim 32.8%
At 40% you will find widespread massacres, chronic terror attacks and ongoing militia warfare:
Bosnia ? Muslim 40%
Chad ? Muslim 53.1%
Lebanon ? Muslim 59.7%
From 60% you may expect unfettered persecution of non-believers and other religions, sporadic ethnic cleansing (genocide), use of Sharia Law as a weapon and Jizya, the tax placed on infidels:
Albania ? Muslim 70%
Malaysia ? Muslim 60.4%
Qatar ? Muslim 77.5%
Sudan ? Muslim 70%
After 80% expect State run ethnic cleansing and genocide:
Bangladesh ? Muslim 83%
Egypt ? Muslim 90%
Gaza ? Muslim 98.7%
Indonesia ? Muslim 86.1%
Iran ? Muslim 98%
Iraq ? Muslim 97%
Jordan ? Muslim 92%
Morocco ? Muslim 98.7%
Pakistan ? Muslim 97%
Palestine ? Muslim 99%
Syria ? Muslim 90%
Tajikistan ? Muslim 90%
Turkey ? Muslim 99.8%
United Arab Emirates ? Muslim 96%
100% will usher in the peace of ?Dar-es-Salaam? ? the Islamic House of Peace ? there?s (supposed) to be peace because everybody is a Muslim: we know however that this isnt true is it...?
Afghanistan ? Muslim 100%
Saudi Arabia ? Muslim 100%
Somalia ? Muslim 100%
Yemen ? Muslim 99.9%
Of course, that?s not the case. To satisfy their religiously ordained blood lust, Muslims then start killing each other for a variety of reasons...and they are coming to a neighborhood near you...so keep thinking they are not going to harm you and they "accept" you.
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Friday, December 23, 2011
Debra Messing and Daniel Zelman: It's Over
Actress Debra Messing and her husband, writer-producer Daniel Zelman, have separated after more than a decade of marriage, according to news reports.
People first reported that the couple - parents to a 7-year-old son, Roman - separated privately earlier this year. The news was shared publicly this week.
Messing, 43, and Zelman, 44, met when both were pursuing graduate degrees in acting at NYU during the early 1990s. They married in September 2000.
A photo of Debra Messing and her husband from 2009.
Us cites an individual close to the pair who says the former Will and Grace star and Zelman recently moved to New York and are still living together.
“It’s very amicable,” the source explains of the two.
That's good at least. Here's wishing both the best.
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Kris Humphries' basketball contract will outlast marriage (Reuters)
LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) ? He may be down a wife, but Kris Humphries is entering next season with an $8 million contract from the New Jersey Nets.
The one-year pact will return the Kim Kardashian's soon to be ex-husband to his former team -- and will last longer than his marriage.
While the NBA's labor dispute has kept the power forward off the court, he's been deploying his hulking physique and coma-inducing monotone on the current season of E!'s "Kourtney & Kim Take New York."
Unsurprisingly, given that the union with Kardashian lasted a mere 72 days, his appearances have been fraught with tension.
The Kardashian sisters flirtation with naked yoga -- a practice Humphries deemed unsanitary -- was a pivotal plot point on a recent episode.
Oh that ... and the conflict between the basketball star's demanding workout schedule and his wife's punishing work-related appearances at night clubs.
The marital drama hasn't endeared Humphries to fans. The journeyman ball player is now the most hated player in the NBA, according to a recent Nielsen and E-Poll Market Research poll.
Fortunately, the Nets will play their final season in New Jersey before moving to Brooklyn.
That would put Humphries several zip codes closer to the SoHo branch of DASH and dredge up lots of unpleasant memories of the Calabasas princess who left him.
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Monday, December 19, 2011
Sunday, December 18, 2011
Alien Planets With No Spin May Be Too Harsh for Life (SPACE.com)
Tidally-locked planets ? planets with one side perpetually facing their star while the other remains shrouded in darkness ? tend to be warmer on one side than the other. The presence of an atmosphere can help distribute the heat across the planet, equalizing the temperatures. But tidal locking could result in wide climate variations, a result that could threaten the evolution of life on the surface of these planets.
Tidal locking depends on the planet's mass and its distance from its star. For planets orbiting M-type stars, which are slightly smaller than our sun, the region where planets become tidally locked overlaps with the so-called habitable zone, where water can remain as a liquid on a planet?s surface.
In the solar system, the moon is tidally locked in orbit around Earth.
According to new research published in the December edition of the Astrophysical Journal,strong heating of a planet at a single point can change or even control how much weathering occurs on the planet, which can lead to significant and even unstable climate changes. These dramatic climate effects could make planets that otherwise have the potential for life to instead be uninhabitable.
Whatever the weather
When rocks and minerals are exposed to the air, they react to the gases within it. As the rocks erode, a fresh face comes into contact with the air, allowing even more gas to be converted. If the erosion process keeps pace with the output of fresh gas into the atmosphere ? say, from volcanic eruptions ? the climate remains stable.
On tidally-locked planets, a single region is consistently close to the star. Known as the substellar point, this region receives more direct sunlight, and thus more heat. The recent paper proposes that such constant attention could affect weathering, and thus could influence the climate of the atmosphere. [Photos: The Strangest Alien Planets]
The process, referred to as enhanced substellar weathering instability (ESWI), is based on the fact that the influx of heat would cause an increase of weathering at the substellar point. The higher temperatures can also result in stronger rainfall, which go on to affect weathering.
"The harder it rains, the more it erodes," said principal investigator Edwin Kite, of the University of California at Berkeley.
More rain means an abundance of fresh rock to react with the atmosphere, removing more of its components.
Similarly, if the substellar point cools for any reason, the weathering process slows. Less rock is available to chemically react, and the atmospheric gas builds up. Volcanism could put more material into the atmosphere than the rocks can absorb ? and since volcanoes on Earth release greenhouse gases like sulfur dioxide and carbon dioxide, presumably a runaway greenhouse effect could take flight, leading to additional heating.
All of this happens because the heat is focused on a single region that is constantly closest to its star.
"What controls the weathering rate of the planet is just that patch," Kite said.
On Earth, carbon dioxide from the air reacts with calcium silicate, creating calcium carbonate and silicone dioxide. The process removes carbon dioxide from the air and controls the greenhouse effect.
"Weathering regulates the climate on Earth on long time scales, and makes sure it doesn't get too hot or too cold," explained Dorian Abbot, of the University of Chicago. Abbot studies climate dynamics on Earth and on extrasolar planets.
The same thing could happen on other planets, but if the conditions are right (or wrong) the results could be more detrimental.
"We sometimes see catastrophic exits from the habitable zone," Kite said.
For instance, a habitable planet could find itself moving to a Venus-like situation, with clouds of gas significantly increasing the surface temperature to points where water would boil off.
Or it could simply boast wide swings over its lifetime, significant shifts from cold to hot and back again. Such fluctuations could mean trouble for life trying to evolve on a planet.
"It has taken a very long time for life to develop complexity on Earth," Kite said.
Kite explained that a number of key steps were required to get life to the point as we know it today.
"It would require a long period of habitability on a planet to allow these different steps to take place," he said. "It's not enough just to rain on a planet for ten thousand years and expect interesting things to happen."
Abbot agreed.
"Climate instabilities are not good for the life we usually think about."
Catastrophic changes: Rare or common?
How many planets could find their atmosphere destabilized by tidal locking??
To narrow that down, one must first look at how frequently tidally-locked planets might exist.
For M-type stars, "We would expect that a lot of the planets in the habitable zone would be tidally locked," Abbot said.
For ESWI to occur, certain conditions must be met on these planets.
The substellar point, closest to the star, cannot be underwater. Land is required for the strongly temperature-dependant weathering.
Similarly, the gas that is absorbed by weathering must be the prevalent gas in the atmosphere.
Kite notes that, even if Earth were moved to another star and became tidally locked, it would not be in danger. Though weathering on Earth consumes carbon dioxide, nitrogen makes up most of the atmosphere.
Such results are not just limited to planets that can only reveal a single face to their star.
According to Kite, "All that's really important to get this process going is a large day/night temperature contrast."
As an example, the team worked with Itay Halevy, of the Weizmann Institute of Science, to consider a Martian mystery. Mars is not tidally locked but has wide temperature variations across a Martian day.
The Red Planet lost its atmosphere long ago, and scientists are still trying to determine exactly how that happened. Kite thinks ESWI could be a potential contributor.
"It's an open question whether enough weathering occurred over its geological history to draw down a significant amount of carbon dioxide," he said.
But Kite was clear that such conditions shouldn't stop astronomers from studying planets that fall in the danger zone. These bodies could still have the potential to be habitable.
"Ultimately, only observing can tell."
This story was provided by?Astrobiology Magazine, a web-based publication sponsored by the NASA astrobiology program.
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Saturday, December 17, 2011
Problems could delay reopening of LA-area freeway
A burning double-tanker gasoline truck sends smoke skyward in Montebello, Calif, Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2011. Thousands of motorists were stuck on a 10-mile stretch of freeway near Los Angeles after the big-rig tanker truck burst into flames Wednesday. No one was injured. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)
A burning double-tanker gasoline truck sends smoke skyward in Montebello, Calif, Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2011. Thousands of motorists were stuck on a 10-mile stretch of freeway near Los Angeles after the big-rig tanker truck burst into flames Wednesday. No one was injured. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)
Firefighters discuss how to approach a burning double-tanker truck gasoline fire in Montebello, Calif, Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2011. Thousands of motorists were stuck on a 10-mile stretch of freeway near Los Angeles after the big-rig tanker truck burst into flames Wednesday. No one was injured. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)
Montebello firefighters battle a blaze from a tanker truck on the eastbound 60-freeway underneath the Paramount Boulevard bridge in Montebello, Calif. Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2011. The freeway is closed indefinitely until inspectors can access bridge damage. (AP Photo/Keith Durflinger, San Gabriel Valley Newspapers) MAGS OUT; NO SALES; MANDATORY CREDIT
Montebello firefighters battle a blaze from a tanker truck on the eastbound 60-freeway underneath the Paramount Boulevard bridge in Montebello, Calif. Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2011. The freeway is closed indefinitely until inspectors can access bridge damage. (AP Photo/Keith Durflinger, San Gabriel Valley Newspapers) MAGS OUT; NO SALES; MANDATORY CREDIT
Montebello firefighters battle a blaze from a tanker truck on the eastbound 60-freeway underneath the Paramount Boulevard bridge in Montebello, Calif. Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2011. The freeway is closed indefinitely until inspectors can access bridge damage. (AP Photo/Keith Durflinger, San Gabriel Valley Newspapers) MAGS OUT; NO SALES; MANDATORY CREDIT
MONTEBELLO, Calif. (AP) ? State transit officials warned late Thursday that the reopening of a Southern California freeway closed by a gasoline tanker fire could be delayed even further.
Officials expected the freeway would reopen by Friday afternoon in time for the evening rush hour, but that has again been delayed indefinitely.
Crews demolishing a heavily damaged overpass on State Highway 60 discovered phone lines encased in potentially hazardous material, California Department of Transportation spokesman Patrick Chandler said. Workers also discovered a fiber-optic line that, if cut, could disrupt phone service for nearby businesses and homes, he said.
Caltrans engineers were working late Thursday with AT&T officials to find a solution to the problems, but for now demolition on the overpass has stopped.
A double-tanker hauling nearly 9,000 gallons of gasoline went up in flames Wednesday under the Paramount Boulevard bridge in Montebello, east of Los Angeles. The driver was not hurt, but the intense flames and heat melted the truck, cratered the road beneath it and cracked the concrete on the overpass so that chunks crashed onto the pavement below.
Authorities quickly closed the freeway, a major route connecting Los Angeles to dozens of bedroom communities to the city's east. Rush-hour traffic Wednesday evening and Thursday morning quickly became gridlocked for miles, delaying commuters by as many as two hours or more and spilling over onto other freeways and surface streets.
Engineers determined that the damaged steel and concrete made the eastern side of the bridge too dangerous to save. Concrete core samples were being examined to determine whether the western side would be pulled down as well.
The overpass was built in 1966. It was unclear how long rebuilding the span might take but it could be weeks or months, Markham said.
That will require closing a stretch of freeway again, although officials said much of the work could be done at night.
Tens of thousands of drivers use the freeway daily to commute from communities in eastern Los Angeles County and adjoining Riverside and San Bernardino counties. It also is a main route for trucks delivering vast streams of goods from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to inland warehouses.
Among those caught in Thursday's mammoth morning traffic jam was Nakisa Kohanchi, an Iranian immigrant who missed her naturalization ceremony because of the traffic tie-up.
Kohanchi left her home in the Sherman Oaks area of Los Angeles at 7:15 a.m. and headed to the ceremony in Montebello, 20 miles away.
It took her nearly two hours to get there, as she was routed off State Highway 60, got lost and drove in circles.
"I had to exit the freeway and I didn't know how I could get there from the streets," said Kohanchi, who planned to become a U.S. citizen at a second ceremony scheduled later in the day.
The shutdown of a key section of Los Angeles area freeway revived memories of the first Carmageddon earlier this year.
In July, a 10-mile stretch of another freeway was closed for a weekend so a bridge could be demolished. Officials had warned for weeks that the work on Interstate 405 in West Los Angeles could create epic traffic jams, however, and people who got the word stayed far away. Traffic in many areas was actually lighter than usual.
That wasn't the case Wednesday.
"We couldn't warn people about this because it was an accident," California Highway Patrol Officer Luis Mendoza said of the tanker fire.
The cause of the fire remained under investigation. There was no crash, so investigators planned to look at other factors, such as possible brake or other mechanical failure.
There were nearly 400 accidents involving tanker trucks hauling chemicals in the U.S. last year and they resulted in five deaths, according to statistics from the U.S. Department of Transportation's Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration.
Most accidents occurred as the tankers were unloading. Only seven occurred in California and none involved a fire.
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Taxin reported from Montebello and Jablon reported from Los Angeles.
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Friday, December 16, 2011
Globes surprise with 'Ides,' snub 'Extremely Loud' (AP)
Woody Harrelson said it himself.
As one of the stars reading the nominations for the Golden Globes on Thursday morning, the actor jokingly added his own film, "Rampart," to the list of best dramatic films.
"There's a lot of things left off today, I just want to say," shrugged Harrelson.
There always is.
The year in movies has shaped up to be one without many clear heavyweight favorites, but rather a large spectrum of fine, worthy films. That means more deserving movies than normal went unheralded by the Globes.
Thus far, the awards season has played out unpredictably, with critics groups and the Screen Actors Guild (the best early indication of how the industry is voting) generally spreading honors around. Among the few that seemed assured of Globe nominations ? and received them ? were the French ode to silent films "The Artist," with a leading six nominations, and the 1960s racial tale "The Help" and Alexander Payne's Hawaiian family story "The Descendants," each with five nominations.
Some snubs and surprises:
? EXTREMELY QUIET: The silence for the much anticipated "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" was deafening. Stephen Daldry's adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer's novel has been the biggest question mark of the awards season, having held its screenings later than any other movie did. The film boasts all of the trappings of awards bait, with top-of-the-line talent in director Stephen Daldry ("The Hours"), screenwriter Eric Roth ("Forrest Gump"), cast (Tom Hanks, Sandra Bullock, Max Von Sydow) and producer Scott Rudin ("The Social Network"). But it failed to land any nominations, not even for the score by Alexandre Desplat, who has previously been nominated by the Globes five times.
? BEWARE THE IDES OF MARCH? Few might have noticed had George Clooney's political thriller not received any nominations. Instead, "The Ides of March" landed four big ones: best picture (drama); best director for Clooney; best actor (drama) for Ryan Gosling; and best screenplay for the script by Clooney, Grant Heslov and Beau Willimon. "Ides" received respectful but tepid reviews on release and is not considered an Oscar favorite. Clooney was nominated for best director over more likely candidates, including Daldry, Steven Spielberg ("War Horse"), David Fincher ("The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo") and Terrence Malick ("Tree of Life"). Also, many would have chosen Gosling's performance in "Drive" over his in "Ides."
? THE SHUTOUTS: As Harrelson suggested, the most striking thing about the Globes' picks were how many good films were left out. Maybe there wasn't room for them, but it's not every year that a dozen well-crafted movies with realistic awards chances go without nomination. The exceptional family drama/apocalyptic nightmare "Take Shelter" didn't receive anything, including the riveting performance by Michael Shannon. Nor did the sleek and stylish Cold War espionage film "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy," which some suspected would land an acting nomination for its star, Gary Oldman. Malick's cosmic-tinged family drama "Tree of Life," considered a masterpiece by some, failed to gain any notice. Its stars, Brad Pitt and Jessica Chastain, were nominated for other movies. Neither was there anything for Tom McCarthy's charming "Win Win," the financial industry thriller "Margin Call," Lars von Trier's operatic "Melancholia" or Ralph Fiennes' Shakespeare adaptation "Coriolanus." Even Harry Potter's swan song, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2," escaped attention.
? THE LAND OF ANGIE: The most predictable "surprise" Thursday was the nomination for Angelina Jolie's directorial debut, "In the Land of Blood and Honey." The film, in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, earned a best foreign language film nomination. The Globes are well known for odd nominations that will attract stars to their prime-time broadcast awards. To that end, Madonna's period romance "W.E." received two music nominations. The prospect of Jolie's attendance at the cost of merely a foreign film slot was an easy call for the Globes. At least they didn't nominate "The Tourist" again.
? IT'S NOT TIME TO MEET THE MUPPETS: Maybe the Hollywood Foreign Press finds the Swedish Chef offensive. Whatever the reason, the largely acclaimed reboot of the "The Muppets" failed to win a nomination. Though the Globes make comedy and musicals a category of its own separate from drama, no musicals were nominated. The tune-filled Muppets" was the only musical with a chance, but didn't even pull in a nomination for a song. Rowlf the Dog is going to be singing the blues.
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Wednesday, December 7, 2011
'Rango,' 'Rio,' 'Puss,' 'Tintin' earn Annie noms (omg!)
LOS ANGELES (AP) ? Johnny Depp's "Rango," Anne Hathaway's "Rio," Antonio Banderas' "Puss in Boots" and Steven Spielberg's "The Adventures of Tintin" are among films competing for best-animated film at the Annie Awards.
The 10 nominees announced Monday also include James McAvoy's "Arthur Christmas," Owen Wilson's "Cars 2," Jack Black's "Kung Fu Panda 2" and three overseas contenders: "A Cat in Paris," ''Arrugas" and "Chico & Rita."
Cast members earning voice-acting nominations for the Annie Awards include "Arthur Christmas" co-stars Bill Nighy and Ashley Jensen, "Kung Fu Panda 2" co-stars Gary Oldman and James Hong and "Puss in Boots" co-star Zach Galifianakis.
Presented by the International Animated Film Society, the Annie Awards will be handed out Feb. 4 at a ceremony in Los Angeles.
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Monday, December 5, 2011
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A new episode of ?Love & Hip Hop? will premiere at a NEW time starting Monday, December 5th at 8 PM ET/PT on VH1. Episode 204 (airs December 5 at 8/7c): “Olivia’s Reality” Description: Olivia meets with a music executive and gets a reality check. Get More: Love And Hip Hop
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Massive WWII bomb succesfully defused in Germany
Sandbags frame a 1.8 ton WWII bomb in river Rhine near Koblenz Saturday Dec. 3, 2011. Officials in Germany's western city of Koblenz say some 45,000 residents have to be evacuated because of a World War II era bomb discovered in the Rhine river. City officials said Saturday the massive British 1.8 ton bomb will be defused early Sunday, requiring all residents within a radius of about 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) from the bomb site to leave their homes for the day. The British bomb was found last week alongside a 275 pound bomb dropped there by U.S. forces during WWII. The bombs were discovered in the Rhine after its water level fell significantly amid a prolonged lack of rain. (AP Photo/dapd/ Harald Tittel)
Sandbags frame a 1.8 ton WWII bomb in river Rhine near Koblenz Saturday Dec. 3, 2011. Officials in Germany's western city of Koblenz say some 45,000 residents have to be evacuated because of a World War II era bomb discovered in the Rhine river. City officials said Saturday the massive British 1.8 ton bomb will be defused early Sunday, requiring all residents within a radius of about 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) from the bomb site to leave their homes for the day. The British bomb was found last week alongside a 275 pound bomb dropped there by U.S. forces during WWII. The bombs were discovered in the Rhine after its water level fell significantly amid a prolonged lack of rain. (AP Photo/dapd/ Harald Tittel)
Old ladies wait to be evacuated from a residential home for the elderly in Koblenz, Germany Sunday Dec. 4, 2011. Officials in the western German city of Koblenz say tens of thousands of residents have left their homes as experts prepare to defuse a massive World War II-era bomb discovered in the Rhine river. City officials said Sunday that some 45,000 residents living within a radius of about 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) from the bomb site had to evacuate for the day by 0800 GMT. It's one of Germany's biggest bomb-related evacuations since the war ended. The British 1.8 ton bomb could cause massive damage if it exploded. It was found last week alongside a 275-pound U.S. bomb after the Rhine's water level fell due to lack of rain. Both bombs are to be defused. (AP Photo/dapd/ Harald Tittel)
Gertrud Thurn (87) background, waits to be evacuated from a residential hom for the elderly in Koblenz, Germany Sunday Dec. 4, 2011. Officials in the western German city of Koblenz say tens of thousands of residents have left their homes as experts prepare to defuse a massive World War II-era bomb discovered in the Rhine river. City officials said Sunday that some 45,000 residents living within a radius of about 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) from the bomb site had to evacuate for the day by 0800 GMT. It's one of Germany's biggest bomb-related evacuations since the war ended. The British 1.8 ton bomb could cause massive damage if it exploded. It was found last week alongside a 275-pound U.S. bomb after the Rhine's water level fell due to lack of rain. Both bombs are to be defused. (AP Photo/dapd/ Harald Tittel)
Police guard a blocked shopping street in downtown Koblenz, western Germany Sunday Dec. 4, 2011. Officials in the western German city of Koblenz say tens of thousands of residents have left their homes as experts prepare to defuse a massive World War II-era bomb discovered in the Rhine river. City officials said Sunday that some 45,000 residents living within a radius of about 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) from the bomb site had to evacuate for the day by 0800 GMT. It's one of Germany's biggest bomb-related evacuations since the war ended. The British 1.8 ton bomb could cause massive damage if it exploded. It was found last week alongside a 275-pound U.S. bomb after the Rhine's water level fell due to lack of rain. Both bombs are to be defused. (AP Photo/dapd/Harald Tittel)
An army vehicle drives across the blocked Pfaffendorfer Bridge over Rhine river in Koblenz, western Germany Sunday Dec. 4, 2011. Officials in the western German city of Koblenz say tens of thousands of residents have left their homes as experts prepare to defuse a massive World War II-era bomb discovered in the Rhine river. City officials said Sunday that some 45,000 residents living within a radius of about 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) from the bomb site had to evacuate for the day by 0800 GMT. It's one of Germany's biggest bomb-related evacuations since the war ended. The British 1.8 ton bomb could cause massive damage if it exploded. It was found last week alongside a 275-pound U.S. bomb after the Rhine's water level fell due to lack of rain. Both bombs are to be defused. (AP Photo/dapd/Harald Tittel)
BERLIN (AP) ? A massive British World War II-era bomb that triggered the evacuation of about half of the 107,000 residents of Germany's western city of Koblenz was successfully defused Sunday, authorities said.
It was one of Germany's biggest bomb-related evacuations since the war ended with some 2,500 police officers, firefighters and paramedics on duty across the city to secure the operation.
Experts successfully defused the British 1.8 ton bomb and a 275-pound U.S. bomb that had been discovered last month after the Rhine river's water level fell significantly due to a prolonged lack of rain, said Heiko Breitbarth, a spokesman for Koblenz's firefighters.
Some 45,000 residents, living within a radius of about 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) from the bomb site had to leave their houses early Sunday before the evacuation order was lifted in the evening, the city said on its website. Among those ordered to evacuate were seven nursing homes, two hospitals and a prison with some 200 inmates.
The British bomb could have cause massive damage in case it exploded.
"I did my job, that was all," lead defusing expert Horst Lenz told local daily Rhein Zeitung.
Finding unexploded bombs dropped by the Allies over Germany during World War II is common over 65 years after the war's end. The explosives are usually defused or detonated by experts without causing injuries.
Authorities in Koblenz had set up shelters for the evacuees and used buses to carry them to safety.
Train and road traffic came to a halt in the area, some 130 kilometers northwest of Frankfurt during the operation.
The residents of Koblenz, which was heavily bombed during World War II, are used to bomb scares. City officials said 28 smaller war bombs had been found there since 1999, the German news agency dapd reported. Such bombs are often found during construction work or by farmers plowing their fields.
Separately, another 200 people had to be evacuated from the southern German city of Nuremberg as experts there defused another bomb left from the war. The 70 kilogram (155 pounds) of unknown origin was defused in 15 minures, the city said in a statement.
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Saturday, December 3, 2011
Lung Cancer's Hidden Victims: Those Who Never Smoked (HealthDay)
FRIDAY, Dec. 2 (HealthDay News) -- Opera legend Beverly Sills never smoked. Neither did actress and health advocate Dana Reeve, wife of the late actor Christopher Reeve.
And yet in 2007 and 2006, respectively, both joined the ranks of about 32,000 Americans each year who never touch a cigarette but die of lung cancer anyway.
In fact, experts say, one in every five cases of the leading cancer killer occurs in nonsmokers. The annual death toll among this group now approaches that of breast cancer (about 40,000 per year) and is roughly equal to that of prostate cancer (32,000). Many never-smoking women may also be unaware that they are more than twice as likely to die of lung cancer as they are of ovarian cancer (14,000 deaths per year).
Numbers like those have experts calling for a shift in the public's thinking on lung cancer, away from its label of "the smoker's disease."
"We say, 'If you have a lung, you can get lung cancer,'" said Linda Wenger, executive director of Uniting Against Lung Cancer (UALC), a nonprofit advocacy group aimed at reaching a better understanding of lung cancer. The group was founded after the death in 2001 of Joan Scarangello, an ABC and NBC journalist and lifelong nonsmoker who fell victim at age 47 to lung cancer.
"She was very healthy, she was a runner," Wenger said, but the disease claimed Scarangello as it has many never-smokers. "We need to look at lung cancer as being a cancer like any other," Wenger added.
Many experts believe that the stigma around smoking that accompanies lung cancer -- that its victims somehow "brought it on themselves" -- has dampened public sympathy for patients and hindered funding for research.
"The lung cancer research field is definitely the stepchild in the [cancer research] family, and we're sure a lot of that has to do with stigma," said Holli Kawadler, UALC's scientific program director. She noted that, in terms of funding received from the U.S. National Cancer Institute, "the numbers are $27,000 in research per cancer death for breast cancer, compared to only about $1,400 per cancer death for lung cancer."
"It's very disheartening for the whole field," Wenger said. "We have a partner out there, his wife has lung cancer but she never smoked. And she has the attitude that 'I never smoked, but cigarettes are going to kill me' because the money is not there for research, because of the smoking stigma."
Lung cancer's lethal nature may also be hindering efforts to boost awareness and funding for research, experts add.
"Unlike other cancers where there is better funding, lung cancer patients aren't well enough to really advocate for themselves," explained Dr. James Dougherty, medical and scientific advisor for the Lung Cancer Research Foundation (LCRF), based in New York City. "When they get the diagnosis they often get sick pretty quickly, so they aren't about to publicly take on the role of saying 'Look, I have a problem, I need help.'"
Still, even with limited funding, scientists are slowly uncovering clues to the origins and distinct nature of lung cancer in never-smokers. One obvious starting point is the fact that women are affected far more often than men.
"Among never-smokers with lung cancer, women outnumber men two-to-one," Wenger said.
According to experts at the LCRF, the reasons for the disparity aren't clear, but early research is suggesting that, much like breast tumors, lung tumor aggressiveness in women appears linked to estrogen. Other factors, as yet unknown, may also be at play.
"We're also learning much more about the differences in the biology of [lung cancer in] smokers and nonsmokers," Dougherty added. He pointed to LCRF-funded research under way at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, "specifically looking at some new potential markers on the [tumor] cells of people who have never smoked. Hopefully that will lead to the identification of better treatment options for nonsmokers."
Determining risk factors that might place certain never-smokers at especially high risk for lung cancer is another focus of research. The dream, experts said, is to somehow devise an accurate "panel" of biological and other factors that could serve as a basis in pinpointing at-risk individuals who may need closer monitoring.
All of these research advances will depend on much better funding, however. In the meantime, the stigma of smoking that overshadows never-smokers newly diagnosed with lung cancer continues.
"We hear a lot from people that the first thing they are asked after diagnosis is, 'Did you smoke?'" said Kawadler. "That's very tough."
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Find out more about ongoing efforts to fight lung cancer at the Lung Cancer Research Foundation.
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Old media executives too busy, private for Twitter (Reuters)
LONDON (Reuters) ? Twitter gives an instant snapshot of the buzz around television shows, computer game launches and even new ads, but many media executives are simply too busy to tweet or engage with the microblogging service very much themselves.
Digital reluctance is particularly strong amongst "old media" leaders, who told this week's Reuters Global Media Summit they were uncomfortable with sharing personal information, especially in 140-character bursts.
Maurice Levy, chief executive of advertising group Publicis, said Twitter and its social networking sister Facebook were simply not for him.
"I hate the idea that I would have to share things which are not for sharing or which are superficial," he said in Paris.
He said he kept tabs on social media in a professional capacity but he did not need to tweet to understand the importance of Twitter.
"I understand how to wash dishes. I don't do it regularly," he said.
His rival Martin Sorrell, of WPP, who has never been reluctant to air his views on television, was not keen to join Twitter's 200 million users either.
"I have enough to do answering your emails," he said. "I'm 66 years old. I'm almost in the glue factory."
Arnaud Nourry of French publisher Hachette said the character limit was Twitter's drawback, and said he preferred Facebook.
"I think communicating with text only with a very limited way of expression is not my style," he said.
The media executives were not keen to emulate musicians like Lady Gaga, sports stars like Shaquille O'Neal and Lance Armstrong or personalities such as Stephen Fry in using the medium to communicate with fans, or with investors.
Hearst Magazines president David Carey said he tweeted mostly corporate promotion and saved personal information for his friends and family.
"For the rest of the world, I don't think they are interested in who I had dinner with ... or where am I going for vacation," he said.
Others used San Francisco-based Twitter to monitor news sources, particularly from key journalists.
"I follow a whole bunch of journalists, but I don't tweet myself," said William Eccleshare, chief executive of outdoor ad company Clear Channel International.
Twitter is considered a leading initial public offering candidate for late 2012 or 2013, and it was worth about $8 billion on secondary markets in October.
It is ramping up efforts to generate more advertising revenues, which are expected to reach $145 million this year. Some observers had criticized its exclusive focus on building audience rather than sales in its early days.
The executives' comments show that Twitter may struggle to reach older decision-makers with ads, although younger guests at the summit were unsurprisingly far more engaged with Twitter.
"Of course," said Claire Boonstra, co-founder of augmented reality company Layar, when asked whether she was on Twitter.
"It's a great chance to connect, it's a great channel actually to share thoughts and opinions, and I also use it to stay up to date with friends of mine," she said. "But it's for me more business than personal."
Targeted ads group Criteo's Gregory Gazagne said: "I use LinkedIn and Facebook a lot more."
"When I'm on Linkedin and I publish things they are automatically published on Twitter. But it takes me too much time to manage all the social networks."
David Norris, founder and chief executive of U.S. digital fingerprinting start-up BlueCava, said he got all of his news from Twitter, letting the people he follows do the hard work of digging out information instead of searching for it himself.
"That's how I know AA just filed for bankruptcy," said Norris, who had just flown in to London from Los Angeles on American Airlines. "They work for me. That's how it's supposed to be."
(Additional reporting by Lisa Richwine in New York, Leila Abboud in Paris and Georgina Prodhan in London; Editing by Hans-Juergen Peters)
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