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UK soldier killed in Afghanistan explosion

, Posted in: Thethinkingheaven, Author: admin (December 31, 2009)

A British soldier killed by explosion in Afghanistan, the Defense has confirmed.
The soldier from the 3rd Battalion, the rifles, was killed during a patrol near Kajaki in Helmand province on Monday afternoon.
The relatives informed of his death, the number of British soldiers killed in conflict since the 2001-244 brings updated.
A spokesman said: His courage and sacrifice must not be forgotten. Have been 244 deaths since the war began, 107 is only 2009.
During the Christmas period had the troops an extra hour of free phone calls at home, apart from the weekly allowance for the normal 30 minutes.
However, Christmas Day saw many soldiers in Afghanistan prior to exercising their normal patrols online.
Meanwhile, the corpses of three soldiers killed in Afghanistan – both are on the presumption of friendly fire incidents – he returned to England on Tuesday.
L / Cpl Michael Pritchard, 22, Constitution of the 4th Royal Military Police, as a result of arms on December 20 killed in Sangin.
L / Cpl Christopher Roney, 23, 3 Battalion, the rifles, died of wounds received in battle in the Sangin December 21.
Both deaths are under investigation and the Department of Defense (MoD) has said that no definitive conclusion could be drawn only after the investigation of men.
The third point is RAF Lyneham in Wiltshire, is that Special Forces soldier L / Cpl Tommy Brown, the Parachute Regiment. He died of a suspected improvised explosive device Dec. 22 in Sangin.
A private ceremony will be held in the chapel of the RAF, before the train crosses the town of Wootton Bassett.

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Condoms ‘too big’ for Indian men

, Posted in: Thethinkingheaven, Author: admin (December 31, 2009)

A survey of more than 1,000 people in India has concluded that condoms, according to international sizes are too large for most Indians.
The study showed that more than half of the male penis, which was measured less than the international standards for condoms.
There should be a call for condoms of mixed sizes leads to a greater extent in India are.
The two year study conducted by the Indian Council of Medical Research.
More than 1,200 volunteers from the length and breadth of the country had the penis can not be measured accurately in mm.
The scientists even checked their sample was representative for Germany as a whole in terms of class, religion and urban and rural populations.
The conclusion of all these scientific efforts is that about 60% of Indian men penis, used in three five centimeters shorter than international standards in the production of condoms.
Doctor Chander Puri, an expert in the field of reproductive health at the Indian Council of Medical Research, told the BBC, was an obvious need in India for custom condoms, as most are now for sale too long.
The question is, given that about one in five times a condom in India is declining or tears, an extremely high failure rate used seriously.
And the country has the largest number of HIV infections of any nation.
Mr Puri said that since Indians would walk into a pharmacy to ask for smaller condoms there, embarrassed to be automatic supply of various sizes across the country.
Smaller condoms are on sale in India. But there is a lack of awareness that different sizes are available. It is the fear turns to the question. And normally one feels shy to go to a pharmacy and request a smaller size condom.

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Publicans to vote on industrial action to cut overheads

, Posted in: Thethinkingheaven, Author: admin (December 31, 2009)

Thousands of pub owners in the new year, see if the vote in protest against the amount you have overhead costs.
Over half of pubs in Britain are by large pub companies – companies – and the GMB Union said possession, forcing owners to buy beer at a higher price.
He also said that companies get to a prepayment of the tax collectors and the monthly rent.
Zoellner said the prices are too high. The defense officials to tell companies not to make it competitive in any sense, their pubs.
They argue that they have a certain power over the administration need to have their pubs in order to make a profit.
Currently, there are estimated 25,000 homeowners in the United Kingdom, are bound, pubs, one of the seven companies, important buildings, which will be leased and the sale of beer.
The demands of the GMB trade union advertisements to pay double the wholesale price of beer on the open market, and requires an annual reduction of 12,000 in wholesale payments in each measure.
The form of collective action remains unclear.
GMB national officer Paul Maloney said: If members vote for measures that will reduce prices to customers pubs during the conflict.
The goal of this measure is bound to offer businesses the negotiations with the companies to achieve a significant reduction in wholesale prices and a resolution for a wide range of problems experienced by tenants tied the hands of middle managers and companies to their representatives. In May, members of the business and enterprise select committee have requested that the Competition Commission should consider agreements with a tenant source beer only for their owners.
The threatened strike comes at a time of widespread concern over the number of bars closed in the UK.
Rose in the first half of 2009 retail outlets in the UK with a rate of 52 per week – one third more than the same period in 2008, said the British Beer & Pub Association.

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O Fortuna is ‘most listened to classical piece’

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O Fortuna, the composition by Carl Orff in 1937, his oratorio Carmina Burana was a classic theme in the United Kingdom, could be heard.
The piece, which appeared recently in the ITV talent show The X Factor led the list of classical music in the last 75 years played.
The 30 most popular type of images were shown in the programs of BBC Radio 2, from classic paintings of The People’s Monday.
Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a theme, the second has been.
The third place went to a recording of 1990 by Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade of the London Symphony Orchestra and conductor Sir Charles Mackerras.
He said he was delighted the work has received a lot of games.
The list was for the BBC Radio 2 with songs collection copyright body PPL played on television, radio, transmission line and collected in public places like shops.
Table Topper German composer Carl Orff was inspired by a poem in medieval Latin. The room was created unrest in each of Michael Jackson turns to warm up before playing for clubs such as Fulham and Doncaster Rovers.
In recent years, has been used in the ITV1 talent The X Factor judges are on the stage.
Recording of the radio orchestra O Fortuna Munich 1973 with the chorus of the Bavarian Radio Choir and Children’s Toelzer is read the most, according to PPL.
Comedian and musician Bill Bailey, who said, made the list of Radio 2, Of course we all knew that would be the leader of the 13th century, a poem Goliardica America. Lovers of classical music: Stephen Fry, one of the staff of the program, said added: For some reason it seems almost satanic, but is really a religious song. Vaughan Williams Fantasia fame was especially important in the maritime Russell Crowe epic Master and Commander: The Far Side Of The World, and during the television coverage of the Oxford-Cambridge race.
Registration conducted in 1986 by the Orchestra of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Bernard Haitink, claimed second place.
This book shows the top-30 is that the planet by Gustav Holst L ‘, with four different shots, one of the Hall Orchestra in Manchester – which in recent times with the rock band Elbow – in eighth place.
Radio 2 programming head Lewis Carnie said: O Fortuna is a timeless piece of music, play more, has more than 70 years after its composition and is a beautiful recording of the work. Fran Nevrkla PPL chairman said: This shows that people PPL lasting popularity of classical music, great old recordings with new versions of classics.
We so often hear these recordings on the radio, and television, and it is good, the artists and record labels that remind share their time, talent and investment in manufacturing.

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Tyra Banks to leave her chat show

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Provide ex-model Tyra Banks announced that she ended her talk show after its fifth season would be.
The 36-year-old said he wanted to continue with the reality show, America’s Next Top Model, but not the show host Tyra.
In a statement on its website, the bank said: Thank you for your support and love. Without you, never a Tyra show was. The star has revealed that the future work on other projects.
This year I have been publicly traded for a few surprises for me and my business – give even outside the project area, he said.
I am pleased to announce that soon I studies listed, which means that my company be involved, will begin films.
I am pleased and I want to inform you of all new things, but there are some people here say to me, write me to stop, and keep your mouth shut about our new projects respectively. He also denied that the decision was made to stop the recording because of poor ratings.
Most of the time, leaving behind a display of air, not because many people have observed. Well, see you all in record numbers.
How many of you know, a few years ago, I decided to quit for the modeling – the height of my modeling career – and if it was the worst the best decision, and I took to fulfill the great dream of a life, said he.
The star also paid tribute to Oprah Winfrey, who also has her talk show to an end.
I pay homage to the Queen of the end of the discussion, Oprah, has a great impact on my life for allowing me my first opportunity during the day to pay television, he said.

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Nine people die in Mississippi apartment blaze

, Posted in: Thethinkingheaven, Author: admin (December 30, 2009)

Nine people have been killed in a fire at an apartment block in the US state of Mississippi, say officials.
At least six children were among the dead, state fire marshal Mike Chaney told the Associated Press news agency.
The blaze was reported to have broken out before dawn at the building in Starkville, Oktibbeha County.
It was not immediately clear what caused the fire, in a two-storey block containing eight apartments, not far from Mississippi State University.
The deaths were confirmed by County Coroner Michael Hunt.
Fire chief Rodger Mann said it would take time to establish more information about the fire and its victims.
“When a fatality is involved, things move a lot slower,” he said.
An eyewitness told the Commercial Dispatch newspaper that children aged four and three as well as a young baby were feared dead.
Resident were reported to have been kept out of the building for several hours.

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Somali pirates hijack UK tanker in Gulf of Aden

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Somali pirates have hijacked the UK-flagged chemical tanker in the Gulf of Aden, officials said.
St James Park ‘was arrested Monday, said as he headed to Thailand, Spain, Kenya, under the Seafarers’ Assistance Program.
The 26 crew members from Russia, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Romania, Poland, Georgia, India, Turkey and the Philippines.
Pirate attacks off the coast of Somalia have been jointly used international armed to deal with them.
St James Park ‘had an emergency call on Sunday night, saying they had issued had been attacked by pirates, according to the International Maritime Bureau.
The tanker, cargo carrying chemicals for making plastics, changed course and now the northern coast of Somalia, said Andrew Mwangura Assistance Program of the seafarers.
It is expected to arrive later in the night, Mwangura told AFP news agency.
The waters around Somalia are among the most dangerous in the world.
Correspondents say the rise of piracy in the region as a result of the failure of the solution to the ongoing political chaos in Somalia to find.

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Argentine gay couple becomes first in region to marry

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Two Argentine men have become the first same-sex couple to marry legally in Latin America.
Alejandro Freyre, 39, and Jose Maria Di Bello, 41, tied the knot in a civil ceremony in the southern city of Ushuaia, in Tierra del Fuego province.
Gay marriage is illegal in Argentina. However, the Tierra del Fuego governor issued a special decree allowing the couple to wed there.
Roman Catholic leaders in the country expressed alarm at the move.
A judge in the capital, Buenos Aires, prevented the couple from marrying there earlier this month.
The men, who are both HIV-positive, had planned to get married on 1 December, World Aids day.
They eventually travelled to Tierra del Fuego, where they received the support of provincial governor Fabiana Rios.
Although Argentina’s civil code bans gay marriage, the constitution is silent on the matter.
Correspondents say Ms Rios exploited this grey area and gave the two men a special dispensation.
She said in a statement that gay marriage was “an important advance in human rights and social inclusion”.
After Monday’s ceremony Mr di Bello said: “We’re extremely excited and happy about what this means for all gays and lesbians in Argentina.”
However Bishop Juan Carlos, of the southern Argentine city of Rio Gallegos, called the marriage “an attack against the survival of the human species”.
Other Catholic leaders have argued that civil union, which is legal in four Argentine cities, should be sufficient.
The Supreme Court is expected to rule on gay marriage next year.

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Google is sued by Chinese author Mian Mian

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The court in Beijing, the Chinese writer Mian Mian, Google’s plan to create an online library continues, said peace talks lead.
After one to two hour hearing, the Court spoke to both parties, but the deadline for lawyers to report to the author.
She asked for compensation of 61,000 yuan (8950, 5576) and a public apology.
The application has been digitized by Google, in October, one of the books Mian Mian, Acid House, stored in the library.
Google is said to have used the book as soon as they knew of the complaint, but no further comment will be deleted for this species.
Mian Mian writes novels of risk – including titles such as Sex and the caramel Panda – About the Chinese underworld of sex, drugs and nightlife.
Most of her work is banned in China.
This is not the only one to complain about issues of copyright posed by online library of Google. The copyright of the written Chinese company is also working to find a replacement for other Chinese writers, whose work on the project.
In France, the court ordered Google to stop scanning books not authorized by the French publisher. Research has also told to pay 300,000 euros (430,000 dollars, 268,000) in compensation, the French company La Martinire, who sued for copyright infringement to scan the book.
In the U.S., Google has agreed to the settlement of 125 million U.S. dollars with writers and editors – although still awaiting final approval from the court.

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US jet plot suspect ‘was in Yemen in December’

, Posted in: Thethinkingheaven, Author: admin (December 30, 2009)

The Nigerian man accused of trying to blow up a jet over the US on Christmas Day was living in Yemen until earlier this month, Yemeni officials have said.
The foreign ministry said Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, was in Yemen from August until the beginning of December, the official Saba news agency reported.
He had a visa to study Arabic at an institute in the capital Sanaa.
Earlier, US President Barack Obama said he would not rest until those involved in the attempt were brought to justice.
Mr Obama promised to use “every element of our national power to disrupt, to dismantle and defeat the violent extremists”.
A US monitoring group says a regional offshoot of al-Qaeda, based in Yemen, has claimed that it was behind the failed attack.
A web posting by al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, which included a photograph purportedly of Mr Abdulmutallab in front of its banner, said it had been a response to US attacks against its operatives.
Mr Abdulmutallab has been charged with attempting to blow up the Northwest Airlines Airbus A330 from Amsterdam, which had nearly 300 people on board, as it made its final descent into Detroit on Friday.
The 23-year-old, who is being held at a federal prison in the US state of Michigan, was restrained by passengers and crew while allegedly trying to detonate a high-explosive device sewn inside his underwear.
He has reportedly told FBI investigators that al-Qaeda operatives in Yemen had supplied him with the bomb and that there are others like him who will strike soon. His family says it lost contact with him in October.
On Tuesday, an official at the Yemeni foreign ministry told Saba that the Migration and Passport Authority had confirmed that Mr Abdulmutallab arrived in Yemen at the beginning of August to study Arabic and left for Ethiopia four months later.
“The entry visa was granted to the Nigerian after authorities found he could get visas from other friendly countries and saw his US visa was still valid,” he said.
The security services were now trying to find out who Mr Abdulmutallab had contact with while in Yemen and would co-operate with the US, he added.
“Yemen condemns such terrorist acts targeting the innocent and it reiterates its full support for the fight against terror anywhere.”
US officials are said to be concerned there may be more al-Qaeda-trained young men in the country planning to bring down US planes.
ABC News earlier reported that among the group who planned the alleged attack were two men who were released by the US from its Guantanamo Bay detention centre in November 2007.
Mohammed Attik al-Harbi, also known as Mohammed al-Awfi, and Said Ali Shari were sent home to Saudi Arabia, where they were admitted to an “art therapy rehabilitation program” and later set free, US and Saudi officials said.
Both men appeared in a video in January along with the man described as the leader of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, Nasser Abdul Karim al-Wahishi, ABC said.
On Monday, US Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said that airport security systems had failed, and that a much-criticised earlier remark of hers that security had worked was taken out of context.
She also demanded to know why officials had not revoked Mr Abdulmutallab’s two-year multiple-entry visa – which was issued in June 2008 – after his father voiced fears to the US embassy in Abuja that his son was becoming radicalised.
Mr Abdulmutallab’s name was added to the Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment (TIDE) watch list, but was not put on a no-fly list.
Online postings apparently written by the young Nigerian between 2005 and 2007 meanwhile suggest the young Nigerian was “lonely” and had “never found a true Muslim friend”, according to the Washington Post.
“I have no one to speak too,” read one entry by a user named farouk1986 in January 2005, when Mr Abdulmutallab was attending boarding school in Togo.
“No one to consult, no one to support me and I feel depressed and lonely. I do not know what to do. And then I think this loneliness leads me to other problems.”

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