Clinton: Syria must end violence to avoid "catastrophic assault"

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Closing and prize-giving ceremony of First International Youth ...

Released on July 7th, 2012

The closing and prize-giving ceremony of the First International Youth Chinese Creative Writing Competition was held today (July 7). Eleven teams from various countries and regions, namely the Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Nanjing, Hangzhou, Macau, Hong Kong and Taiwan, participated in the event.

Co-organised by the Education Bureau of Hong Kong and the Confucius Institute of Hong Kong, the competition was also supported by the School of Chinese of the University of Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, the Greater China Culture Global Association and the Hong Kong Institute for Promotion of Chinese Culture.

The competition, which took place from July 3 to 7, aimed at promoting Chinese creative writing amongst young Chinese writers all over the world. It provided a platform for gifted young writers who are interested in Chinese creative writing to learn, to share and to exchange their ideas and learning experiences. Outstanding performance by the writers was also encouraged and recognised.

The competition, with a theme entitled ?Racial Harmony?, was divided into three sections, namely a prose section, a short story section and a blog writing section.

Speaking at the closing ceremony, the Principal Education Officer (New Territories) of the Education Bureau, Mr Benjamin Yung, and the council member of the Confucius Institute of Hong Kong, Professor Chan Shui-duen, congratulated the students on having such a valuable learning experience and encouraged them to keep striving for excellence by continuing in their study of Chinese culture and writing skills.

Professor Cheng Pei-kai of the City University of Hong Kong also shared his personal experience in creative writing and commented on the performance of the participants. His valuable comments would benefit the young writers in their studies and creative writing in the future.

During the five-day learning and cultural exchange programme, all teams took part in a talent contest to enhance cultural exchange and show their skills.

In order to enhance their creativity and writing ability, the participants attended a seminar on creative writing given by Associate Professor Wu Yin-ching of the Hong Kong Baptist University. They also visited the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and the University of Hong Kong. To broaden the students? horizons and to enhance their understanding in Chinese history and culture, visits were conducted to the Ping Shan Heritage Trail, the Hong Kong Museum of History and the Hong Kong Museum of Coastal Defence. The participants not only shared their passion and learned the skills for creative Chinese writing, but also treasured having such a valuable learning experience through different activities.

For more details of the writing competition, please visit the website at resources.edb.gov.hk/gifted/IYCCWC/en/index.htm .

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Cuba's Castro meets Hanoi top brass

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Severe storms lash Smokies park, visitors hurt

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Redding Fire Nearly Contained, 5 Homes Spared

REDDING, Calif. -- Authorities say a 1,200-acre wildfire near Redding in Northern California is now 60 percent contained after destroying two outbuildings and damaging five homes.

California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection spokesman Daniel Berlant on Friday says about 1,000 firefighters are battling a blaze they expect to contain by Saturday.

Berlant says evacuation orders for 80 homes were lifted Friday at about 5 p.m. The evacuations were for neighborhoods in southwest Redding and the Happy Valley area.

Some roads in the area remain closed.

The fire was first reported at 2 p.m. Thursday.

Berlant says the fire moved swiftly due to dry weather conditions.

The cause of the fire is under investigation.

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Activists Call for NIH Research Chimps to Be Retired

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In the wake of a 2011 federal report concluding that chimp research is scientifically unnecessary, an animal-rights group wants the NIH director to to ensure that chimps still in agency labs are retired


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Loretta, Ricky, Tiffany and Torian lead increasingly quiet lives, munching peppers and plums, perching and swinging in their 16-cubic-metre glass enclosures. They are the last four chimpanzees at Bioqual, a contract firm in Rockville, Maryland, that since 1986 has housed young chimpanzees for use by the nearby National Institutes of Health (NIH). Now an animal-advocacy group is demanding that the animals' roles as research subjects is brought to an end.

Researchers at the NIH?s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and the Food and Drug Administration have used the juvenile chimpanzees to study hepatitis C and malaria, as well as other causes of human infection, such as respiratory syncytial virus and norovirus. But now the NIH?s demand for ready access to chimpanzees is on the wane as the scientists who relied on them retire and social and political pressures against their use grow. The four remaining chimps are set to be returned soon to their owner, the New Iberia Research Center (NIRC) near Lafayette, Louisiana.

?Much of what I have done over the past years has been research in chimps,? says Robert Purcell, 76, who heads the hepatitis viruses section at the NIAID?s Laboratory of Infectious Diseases. ?It?s just a good time now [to retire] as the chimps are essentially no longer available.?

Last December, a report from the US Institute of Medicine concluded that most chimpanzee research was scientifically unnecessary and recommended that the NIH sharply curtail its support. The agency has since set up a working group to review existing studies and advise on whether they should be ended. Purcell and his team have formally requested that one study on liver disease, involving three of the remaining chimps at Bioqual, should be allowed to continue.

But animal activists say that the Bioqual chimpanzees, which could undergo decades more research at the NIRC, should be retired. On 5 July, the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), an animal-advocacy group in Washington DC, launched a petition and wrote to NIH director Francis Collins urging him to intervene to ensure that the animals are placed in a federally supported sanctuary in Louisiana called Chimp Haven.

In reply, the NIH issued a statement noting that the Bioqual animals are leased, but not owned, by the agency. As a result, it said, ?NIH does not have authority over privately owned chimpanzees and cannot decide where they are placed?.

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The NIRC, the chimps? owner, and part of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, houses around 350 research chimpanzees and conducts studies on them for commercial clients. It has for decades leased young animals to NIAID. Thomas Rowell, the NIRC's director, could not be reached for comment.

The activists are also concerned because last year one chimpanzee, an 8-year-old male called Chaos, died during transit from Bioqual to the NIRC. The US Department of Agriculture, which enforces the Animal Welfare Act, is investigating the incident. Procedures have changed since; when eleven other chimps were shipped back to the NIRC last month, the truck was driven by a vet, and an animal technician rode with the animals.

The remaining four chimps at Bioqual are scheduled to be shipped back to the NIRC soon: Loretta, a three-year-old that has just completed a two-year study probing how malaria parasites resist chloroquine and artemisinin, two key drugs against the disease, will travel to Louisiana within weeks. Seven-year-old Ricky, with Tiffany and Torian, who are both four years old, will follow a few months later. Purcell is using them to study a possible infectious trigger of primary biliary cirrhosis, a chronic autoimmune disease of the liver that is usually fatal without a liver transplant.

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The difference between iPad and. Toshiba Windows tablet commercials

The difference between iPad and. Toshiba Windows tablet commercials

A while back we compared and contrasted the way Apple was selling the iPad -- as something experiential -- to how carriers were marketing Android tablets -- as spec lists. Now Toshiba has released a new series of ads for their Windows tablet that go in an entirely different direction. Buzzefeed has posted four of them. Here's a sample:

And here's Apple's new iPad ad:

Now I don't find anything aesthetically objectionable about a good looking woman doing yoga, and I'm from Montreal where we're far from puritanical so I have no problem with cleavage or entendres double, triple, or quadruple. But I also worked in marketing for a decade and what I do have a problem with bad marketing.

Let's say, for the sake of argument, that some percentage of Toshiba's target audience finds these ads funny and/or titillating, how does that translate into tablet sales? Would you buy a Toshiba tablet over an iPad because a woman in yoga togs bent over it? Or is Toshiba's goal simply to raise awareness that they have tablets, and get articles like this one written about them?

If there's no such thing as bad press, have they succeeded? Or have they only succeeded in hurting their brand?

Source: Buzzfeed via @gartenberg, The Loop

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Generating Friendhsips | Daniel Spain's Blog

Friendship has become a necessity in society today.? Whether you have a thousand friends or ten friends it makes no difference, we all want a feeling of belonging.? It has been estimated that on average, a person meets about 100,000 people in the course of their lifetime.? But how many of these people are our friends?

Who needs friends?

Friendships don?t just happen overnight. ?We spend a vast amount of time and effort building and developing friendships throughout our lives and there are benefits.? The benefits of building a vast majority of friendships is represented by just a ?friend-count? but has provide several health benefits.? I recently read an article by that highlighted a number of studies that have proven that a foundation of friends has provided an increase in overall happiness, a higher achievement of weight and fitness goals, and that being social results in a boost in your immune system.

Constructing Friendships.

As I mentioned before friendships don?t just happen overnight but is a process that takes time.? Friendship begins with role-limited interaction.? In?Interpersonal Communication: Everyday Encounters, Julia Wood explains this as a person we meet at work, class, or by chance at our favorite restaurant or store.? Basically it is an interaction limited to a specific context or place.? Wood then defines stage two as friendly relations in which both parties determine whether there is or is not a common ground for interest and/or beliefs.? In this stage both parties will initiate small talk to determine whether or not they are compatible for friendships.? If common interest is not met by both parties the friendship will move no further.? Wood describes the third stage as the move towards friendship, meaning we move beyond social roles.? For instance we may invite a classmate to hangout, or a co-worker to go out for a cup of coffee.?? Wood also notes that many friendships never move beyond this point.? If two people continue to interact regularly and are interested in continuing the relationship they may start to think of themselves as friends.? Wood defines this as a nascent friendship.? She concludes that as we interact on a more personal basis we begin to share feelings, values, concerns, and interest.? In doing so we work out patterns of expected interaction or rules however, we may not be aware of this until later.

Best Friends

Best Friends Forever!

Wood identifies the next stage of friendships as a stabilized friendship.? She notes that the idea of continuity is a touchstone for this stage.? Unlike the previous stages, stabilized friends need no active plan and often assume they will continue to interact with each other and remain friends for a lifetime.? Maintain a stabilized friendship requires a high level of trust in both parties and is only achieved a handful of times in a lifetime.? These are our most cherished friends and family, our best friends forever.

Nothing Good about Good-bye.

No one likes to say good-bye but it is a sad admission.? Wood defines the final stage of a friendship as a waning friendship which is when friends drift apart and the friendship ends.? This can be because one friend moves away or because of competing interest in ones career decisions.? If your friend own and oil tycoon and you advocated for clean ?green? energy your friendship may deteriorate.? Wood also notes that some wane because they have run their natural course.? For instance while we maintain relationships with some of our best friends throughout high school many of the relationships we formed are lost upon graduating.

By understanding how friendships are formed one can gain an added appreciation for friendships as a whole.? Knowing that they aren?t formed overnight and we put in a vast amount of time an effort into forming friendships may give us a higher appreciation for the friends we have.? I never really thought about the process in which I have made friends over my lifetime however, looking back I am great-full I was able to meet so many different and wonderful people.? I appreciate all the friends I have met, all the friends I have, and all the friends I have yet to make.

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Source: http://blogs.longwood.edu/spaindh/2012/07/05/generating-friendhsips/

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Packard Bell burrows affordable niche with EasyNote TE: 400 euros, 15.6 inches, AMD inside

Packard Bell burroughs affordable niche with EasyNote TE laptop 400 euros, 156 inches, AMD inside

While parent company Acer eyes deeper pockets and higher margins, Packard Bell is soldiering on with its EasyNote range of laptops for thrifty Europeans. Spotted by the friendly folk at Pocket-lint, the EasyNote TE has just reached stores and should scrape under the €400 (£300, $500) mark -- thanks partly to its avoidance of the premium Intel processor found in the EasyNote TV. Instead, the TE relies on AMD's updated E-Series processor (the slower 1.4GHz E1-1200 version, to be precise), which comes with capable Radeon HD 7310 onboard graphics and supports a USB 3.0 port (in addition to twin USB 2.0) and HDMI output. You'll also find a 15.6-inch 1366 x 768 display, 750GB of storage and a "multi-in-1" card slot -- which means the only spec we're missing is the RAM. Who'll take a bet on 4GB?

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Post Divorce Essential Estate Planning Checklist | Family Wealth ...

The things that must be updated in one?s estate plan when someone gets divorced.? How to make sure they are protected from the unexpected.

Living Trust/Will

  • These documents contain instructions about a number of crucial estate planning decisions:? who is in charge of administration of the individual?s estate, who is nominated as guardian of minor children, who are the beneficiaries of the estate, and who is in charge of managing assets on behalf of the beneficiaries if they are minors.? The last thing a newly divorced individual wants is to have their ex-spouse be in charge of handling their assets should they become incapacitated or pass away.? After a divorce, joint trusts need to be dissolved with each individual creating their own with the appropriate updated instructions.

Durable Power of Attorney for Finances/Advance Healthcare Directive

  • These VERY IMPORTANT estate planning documents allow for the appointment of an agent to act on one?s behalf to make crucial financial and medical decisions in case of incapacity.? Again, the last thing a recently divorced individual wants is to have their ex-spouse in charge of their finances and medical decisions.? New powers of attorney should be executed post divorce.

Beneficiary Designations (Life Insurance Policies, Retirement Plans, PODs, TODs)

  • Beneficiary designations are essentially contracts between a financial institution/administrator and the person who owns the account.? These are extremely important because for estate planning purposes they generally trump any outside instructions.? Therefore, even if a trust/will document has been updated post-divorce, those instructions will not control an asset with a beneficiary designation attached to it unless the trust is named as a beneficiary.? Individuals often forget to update all of their beneficiary designations post divorce.? In fact, most people rarely, if ever update them and this can cause a nightmare when that individual passes away.

Titling of all Major Assets

  • In estate planning, title means everything!? Title dictates to whom and how an asset is transferred at death and who has control over it during lifetime.? The most common mistake made in estate planning is simply listing an asset in a trust document.? Proper and formal titling of all of the major assets is imperative.

Source: http://familywealthlawgroup.com/blog/2012/07/post-divorce-essential-estate-planning-checklist/

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