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One after the other, independent movie theaters are going out of business in Japan. In this post we will look at the situation in Tokyo,?which has the?largest number of theaters?in Japan?[ja].
In 2011, two theaters were closed in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward. This year, on January 29,?Ebisu Garden Cinema?[ja] and on February?27,?Cinesaison Shibuya?[ja] were shut.?Ginza Theatres Cinema?[ja] will follow suit in May 2013.
In the Asakusa area, which is home to?Denkikan,?Japan's first dedicated movie theater, built in the early 1900s and a symbolic place for Japan's motion picture, the last three traditional cinema houses?Asakusa-Meigaza?[ja], Asakusa-Chuei Gekijo?[ja] and Asakusa-Shin Gekijo?[ja] were forced to shut down on October 21, 2012.
The?Chuei Corporation?[ja] which ran the three theaters?explained ?the deterioration of the buildings? had forced them to close.
Quite a few people were shocked by the news:
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The building, built in 1927, is older than Nihonbashi-Takashimaya which is designated as one of the important cultural properties. It?s regretable in that sense as well.
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The downtown of Asakusa sixth street in Tokyo in 1937.
Many theaters stood side by side and attracting crowds of people.
Image originally appeared in ?Sekai Gaho? in December 1937 (Public Domain)
On April 24 2012, a Japanese film director Koji Wakamatsu, who passed away on Oct 17 this year, made a proposal on Twitter about the country's grant?system on arts and cluture, which has been retweeted 5,927 times as of November 27, 2012:
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Proposal by Director Wakamatsu :?The Agency for Cultural Affairs need not to provide grants for film making, which will only result in poor production. Instead they should support the suffering small theaters. It is meaningless to make films if there?s no theater to show them! Please amplify my message.
Meanwhile, @Dol_Paula tweeted in reply to this question on 2channel, a Japanese textboard, ?What makes you avoid going to theaters??
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Because the ticket is valid for only one show. It used to be okay to stay and watch the same show again with the same fee. Also, now DVDs are available in three months after the film comes off the theater, far shorter than six months. I was surprised to see a TV commercial announcing the release of the DVD version of Cars 2
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I feel we are suffering a real loss [with theaters?disappearing]?, but I also feel there?s no great film that is worthy of being showcased in traditional cinema houses. It can be said that we are in a temporal trend ?where people are just going to dry, cinema complexes with enlarged versions of TV screens
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The entrance of Cinepathos Ginza (to be closed in May) is in an underground restaurant area
Image by Flickr user jun560 under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
The tide of closing cinemas has changed the look of Tokyo's streets. People who used to get together and spend time there have lost their place.
@IMAO_S worries about elderly fans of traditional cinema houses.
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It's a sad thing?.where will those men who always hang out there, go?
Source: http://globalvoicesonline.org/2012/12/30/japans-independent-film-theaters-are-disappearing/
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NEW YORK (AP) ? A woman suspected in the death of an immigrant who was pushed off a New York City subway platform has been ordered to undergo a psychiatric evaluation.
Erika Menendez, 31, was arraigned Saturday night on a charge of murder as a hate crime. She had told police she has hated Muslims since Sept. 11 and thought the victim was one. Judge Gia Morris ordered that Menendez be held without bail and be given a mental health exam.
Menendez is charged in the death of Sunando Sen, who was crushed by a train in Queens on Thursday night. Friends and co-workers said Sen, a 46-year-old Indian immigrant, was Hindu.
"I pushed a Muslim off the train tracks because I hate Hindus and Muslims ever since 2001 when they put down the twin towers I've been beating them up," Menendez told police, according to the district attorney's office.
"The defendant is accused of committing what is every subway commuter's worst nightmare," Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said.
Menendez was incoherent at her arraignment in Queens criminal court, at one point laughing so hard that the judge told her defense lawyer, "You're going to have to have your client stop laughing."
Menendez admitted shoving Sen, who was pushed from behind, authorities said. She was arrested after a tip by a passer-by who saw her on a street and thought she looked like the woman in a surveillance video released by police.
A call to Menendez's attorney was not immediately returned Sunday.
Angel Luis Santiago, who used to work at the Queens building where Menendez's mother and stepfather live, said he was shocked by her arrest.
"It surprised me what she did," he said. "She never acted that way."
Menendez's next court appearance is scheduled for Jan. 14.
Sen was the second man to die after being pushed in front of a New York City subway train this month. Ki-Suck Han was killed in a midtown Manhattan subway station on Dec. 3. A photo of Han clinging to the edge of the platform a split second before he was struck by a train was published on the front page of the New York Post, causing an uproar about whether the photographer, who was catching a train, or anyone else should have tried to help him.
A homeless man was arrested and charged with murder in that case and is awaiting trial. He claimed he acted in self-defense.
It's unclear whether anyone tried, or could have tried, to help Sen on Thursday.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg urged residents Friday to keep Sen's death in perspective as he touted new historic lows in the city's annual homicide and shooting totals.
"It's a very tragic case, but what we want to focus on today is the overall safety in New York," Bloomberg told reporters following a police academy graduation.
But commuters still expressed concern over subway safety and shock about the arrest of Menendez on a hate crime charge.
"For someone to do something like that ... that's not the way we are made," said David Green, who was waiting for a train in Manhattan. "She needs help."
Green said he caught himself leaning over the subway platform's edge and realized maybe he shouldn't do that.
"It does make you more conscious," he said of the deaths.
Such subway deaths are rare, but other high-profile cases include the 1999 fatal shoving of aspiring screenwriter Kendra Webdale by a former psychiatric patient. That case led to a state law allowing for more supervision of mentally ill people living outside institutions.
Transit officials said last week they would consider installing barriers with sliding doors on some subway platforms. Other cities including Paris and London have installed such barriers.
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Associated Press writer Karen Matthews contributed to this report.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/psychiatric-test-suspect-nyc-subway-death-151759202.html
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While discussion of the so-called ?fiscal cliff? has dominated headlines and the attention of the White House, proposals to reform the nation?s immigration laws have been introduced and pushed forward by several Republican leaders on Capitol Hill.
On Nov. 27, 2012, Sens. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., Kay Bailey Hutchinson, R-Texas, and John McCain, R-Ariz., introduced the Assisting Children and Helping Improve Educational Value for Employment (ACHIEVE) Act. The legislation, if enacted, would offer legal status to eligible undocumented youth who came to the United States as children. The bill (S. 3639) proposes to provide legal status to young undocumented immigrants through a three-step visa process.
?Many young people in this country are here illegally through no fault of their own. Relegating a potentially productive portion of the population to the shadows is neither humane nor good economic or social policy,? Sen. Kyl said in a written statement. ?Only those who have abided by our nation?s laws, while residing within its borders, would be eligible for continued legal status, and there is no automatic path to citizenship.?
In August 2012, President Barack Obama signed an executive order that provides young undocumented immigrants legal status and work permits if they are younger than 30 and came to the United States before age 16. The ACHIEVE Act as introduced by the Republican senators would create a more formalized and regimented system than the process set up by the president?s executive order.
According to the legislation, W-1 visas would be available to the undocumented youths who attend school to earn college or vocational degrees or who agree to serve in the U.S. military for four years. To qualify, applicants must reside in the U.S. five years prior to the bill?s passage and have entered the country before the age of 14. Applicants who have been convicted of a felony would be ineligible to participate in the visa program.
After finishing their education or military service requirements for the W-1, applicants would then become eligible to receive a W-2 work visa that would allow them to work in the United States for four years. Once the four years of work on a W-2 visa were completed, applicants would become eligible for a renewable W-3 work visa; however, no pathway to U.S. citizenship would be available under the ACHIEVE Act proposal.
Sources familiar with the issue say that the Republicans? effort to push forward immigration reform is a response to the 2012 election, when nearly 70 percent of Hispanics voted for President Obama. Many GOP candidates during the election campaign, including presidential candidate Mitt Romney, took a hardline stance on immigration issues. Romney was quoted as saying that all undocumented immigrants should leave the United States by ?self-deportation? and then reapply for legal entry.
According to some political analysts, the reform proposals offered by Republicans during the ?lame duck? session of Congress demonstrate that GOP leaders are softening their stances on immigration issues. On Nov. 30, 2012, the House of Representatives passed the STEM Jobs Act of 2012 (H.R. 6429). If enacted, the proposal would make up to 55,000 visas available to qualified immigrants who have advanced degrees in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM degrees) from a U.S. university and agree to work for at least five years in the United States in a STEM-related field.
The proposal was approved largely down party lines. Democrats objected to a provision in the bill that would eliminate a visa lottery program that allows workers from various nations and backgrounds to apply for U.S. work visas.
While the ACHIEVE Act and the STEM Jobs Act have strong support among GOP members of Congress, both bills face an uphill battle in the Senate, which is controlled by the Democrats. In addition, the White House has indicated that the president would veto both proposals and instead wants to concentrate on enacting a comprehensive immigration reform package in 2013.
Bill Leonard is senior writer for SHRM.
Related Resources
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President Signs Visa Reauthorization Bill, SHRM Online Staffing Management, Oct. 1, 2012
Proposed Changes to Immigration Form Raise Privacy Concerns, SHRM Online Legal Issues, Aug. 21, 2012
Report: U.S. Immigration Policies Turning Away Global Talent, SHRM Online Global HR, June 25, 2012
Comprehensive Immigration Reform Will Require Bipartisanship, SHRM Online Legal Issues, May 16, 2012
Verifying Eligibility to Work in the United States under Federal and State Law, SHRM Online Tools & Templates, Dec. 1, 2011
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Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid speaks on the Senate floor. (Reuters/C-SPAN/Handout)Bottom line: Still no "fiscal cliff" deal. And none seems imminent.
The U.S. Senate on Sunday ended the day still sharply divided over how to avoid the automatic? income-tax hikes and deep government spending cuts set to kick in Jan. 1 that could plunge the economy into a new recession.
Despite pleas from President Barack Obama and Republican House Speaker John Boehner for the Senate to resolve the stalemate, Democrat Harry Reid, the Senate Majority Leader, announced lawmakers would not return to work until 11 a.m. on Monday -- New Year's Eve -- for one last chance to avoid going over the so-called fiscal cliff.
Reid tried to sound a note of optimism, saying closed-door discussions would carry on.
?There is still significant distance between the two sides, but negotiations continue,? he said. ?There is still time left to reach an agreement and we intend to continue negotiations.?
But senators on both sides sounded less than optimistic as they emerged from separate closed-door meetings -- one for Democrats, one for Republicans.
"We've all been told not to make plans for New Year's Eve," Missouri Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill told reporters.
Some said they remained hopeful.
The Senate's number two Democrat, Dick Durbin of Illinois,? told reporters he was "definitely" encouraged that Republicans had dropped a demand for reducing Social Security benefits as a condition for extending unemployment benefits set to expire for some two million Americans. Obama has said extending the unemployment benefits is one of his top priorities for any deal.
"Now that they?re backing off of it, maybe we can make some progress -- ?I hope," Durbin said.
Obama had previously offered to index Social Security benefits with a "chained" consumer price index -- essentially adopting a less generous measure of cost-of-living increases -- but only with safeguards for the poorest beneficiaries and only as part of a broader deficit-reduction plan.
Earlier, Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell complained that Democrats had not yet given him a counteroffer to a GOP proposal delivered at 7 p.m. Saturday night. And McConnell spoke by telephone at least twice with Vice President Joe Biden in an effort to "jump-start" the stalled negotiations.
Even if McConnell and Reid could put together a last-minute compromise, that deal would still need to clear the Senate and the House of Representatives -- no mean feat with time running very short.
The two sides have been starkly at odds for the last year over which Bush-era income tax cuts to extend past their Jan. 1 expiration. Obama campaigned on letting taxes rise on income above $250,000, Republicans aim to set the threshold higher.
And the income tax threshold was far from the only bone of contention.
Obama and most Democrats want to extend unemployment benefits, but Republicans linked that request to the ?chained CPI? for Social Security. With that change off the table, it was not clear what would happen to the jobless help, Durbin said.
Obama and most Democrats want to see the estate tax paid on large inheritances rise. Republicans want to exempt more estates from what they call the ?death tax.?
The two sides are also looking at sparing millions of Americans from suddenly having to pay the Alternative Minimum Tax and eyeing a way to keep the reimbursement rate paid to doctors on Medicare-covered treatment from being slashed.
Maine Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe on Sunday blasted the last-minute negotiations as a "travesty" that had left American taxpayers disgusted and scared.
"It starts with beginning of this Congress -- in the last two years we?ve seen historic failure after historic failure," Snowe said.? "Both parties and both branches of government ... it imposes a tremendous hardship and burden on the average American."
Snowe, who is retiring after 34 years in Congress, has said the intense partisanship in Washington largely drove her decision to leave.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/senate-adjourns-monday-eve-fiscal-cliff-235140452--politics.html
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ROME (AP) ? Rita Levi-Montalcini, a biologist who conducted underground research in defiance of Fascist persecution and went on to win a Nobel Prize for helping unlock the mysteries of the cell, died at her home in Rome on Sunday. She was 103 and had worked well into her final years.
Rome Mayor Gianni Alemanno, announcing her death in a statement, called it a great loss "for all of humanity." He praised her as someone who represented "civic conscience, culture and the spirit of research of our time."
Italy's so-called "Lady of the Cells," a Jew who lived through anti-Semitic discrimination and the Nazi invasion, became one of her country's leading scientists and shared the Nobel medicine prize in 1986 with American biochemist Stanley Cohen for their groundbreaking research carried out in the United States. Her research increased the understanding of many conditions, including tumors, developmental malformations, and senile dementia.
Italy honored Levi-Montalcini in 2001 by making her a senator-for-life.
A petite woman with upswept white hair, she kept an intensive work schedule well into old age. "At 100, I have a mind that is superior ? thanks to experience ? than when I was 20," she said in 2009.
"A beacon of life is extinguished" with her death, said a niece, Piera Levi-Montalcini, who is a city councilwoman in Turin. She told the Turin daily newspaper La Stampa that her aunt passed away peacefully "as if sleeping" after lunch and that the scientist had kept up her research studies several hours a day "right up until the end."
Levi-Montalcini was born April 22, 1909, to a Jewish family in the northern city of Turin. At age 20 she overcame her father's objections that women should not study and obtained a degree in medicine and surgery from Turin University in 1936.
She studied under top anatomist Giuseppe Levi, whom she often credited for her own success and for that of two fellow students and close friends, Salvador Luria and Renato Dulbecco, who also became separate Nobel Prize winners. Levi and Levi-Montalcini were not related.
After graduating, Levi-Montalcini began working as a research assistant in neurobiology but lost her job in 1938 when Italy's Fascist regime passed laws barring Jews from universities and major professions.
Her family decided to stay in Italy and, as World War II neared, Levi-Montalcini created a makeshift lab in her bedroom where she began studying the development of chicken embryos, which would later lead to her major discovery of mechanisms that regulate growth of cells and organs.
With eggs becoming a rarity due to the war, the young scientist biked around the countryside to buy them from farmers. She was soon joined in her secret research by Levi, her university mentor, who was also Jewish and who became her assistant.
"She worked in primitive conditions," Italian astrophysicist Margherita Hack told Sky TG24 TV in a tribute to her fellow scientist. "She is really someone to be admired."
Italy's premier, Mario Monti, paid tribute to Levi-Montalcini's "charismatic and tenacious" character and for her lifelong battle to "defend the battles in which she believed."
Only a few months ago, she helped sponsor an appeal to the government for more attention of fund-strapped young scientists in Italy.
Vatican spokesman the Rev. Federico Lombardi praised Levi-Montalcini's civil and moral efforts, saying she was an "inspiring" example for Italy and the world, the ANSA news agency said.
An Italian scientist, who worked for some 40 years with Levi-Montalcini, including in the United States, said the work the Nobel laureate did on nerve growth factor was continuing. The protein assists portions of the central nervous system that have been damaged by disease or injury.
"Over the years, this field of investigation has become ever more important in the world of neuroscience," Pietro Calissano was quoted by ANSA as saying. Calissano began studying under Levi-Montalcini in 1965 and recalled her ability to relate to students on a very human level, with none of the elite airs that often characterize Italian professors.
"I remember we were in a closet with cell cultures when she offered me a fellowship," Calissano said. He added that research building on Levi-Montalcini's pioneering achievements continues. "We are working on a possible application in the treatment of Alzheimer's," he added.
The 1943 German invasion of Italy forced the Levi-Montalcini family to flee to Florence and live underground. After the Allies liberated the city, she worked as a doctor at a center for refugees.
In 1947 Levi-Montalcini was invited to the United States, where she remained for more than 20 years, which she called "the happiest and most productive" of her life. She held dual Italian-U.S. citizenship.
During her research at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, she discovered nerve growth factor, the first substance known to regulate the growth of cells. She showed that when tumors from mice were transplanted to chicken embryos they induced rapid growth of the embryonic nervous system. She concluded that the tumor released a nerve growth-promoting factor that affected certain types of cells.
The research increased the understanding of many conditions, including tumors, developmental malformations, and senile dementia. It also led to the discovery by Stanley Cohen of another substance, epidermal growth factor, which stimulates the proliferation of epithelial cells. The two shared the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1986.
Levi-Montalcini returned to Italy to become the director of the laboratory of cell biology of the National Council of Scientific Research in Rome in 1969.
After retiring in the late 1970s, she continued to work as a guest professor and wrote several books to popularize science. She created the Levi-Montalcini Foundation to grant scholarships and promote educational programs worldwide, particularly for women in Africa.
In 2001 Levi-Montalcini was made a senator for life, one of the country's highest honors.
She then became active in Parliament, especially between 2006 and 2008, when she and other life senators would cast their votes to back the thin majority of center-left Premier Romano Prodi.
Levi-Montalcini had no children and never married, fearing such ties would undercut her independence.
"I never had any hesitation or regrets in this sense," she said in a 2006 interview. "My life has been enriched by excellent human relations, work and interests. I have never felt lonely."
Italian mathematician Piergiorgio Odifreddi said he was always struck by the contrast of this "petite, frail woman and the power of her mind." He recalled comments that Levi-Montalcini made when she turned 100. She mentioned that she would sleep no more than two or three hours a night because "I have no time to lose," Odifreddi told Sky TG24.
There was no immediate announcement of funeral or memorial services.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/nobel-scientist-rita-levi-montalcini-dies-rome-154440935.html
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"A goal without a plan is just a wish." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"Life is like a ten-speed bicycle.? Most of us have gears we never use." - Charles Schulz
So--goals.
A blog post I read recently--forgive me, I can't recall which one--commented sagely enough that it's silly to rely upon a particular date (specifically, January 1st of each year) to spur ourselves into self-improvement activities such as goal-setting, resolution-declaring, beer-drinking, etc.?
Okay, I made that last bit up.? But there is an awful lot of beer-drinking that goes on around that time of year, isn't there?? It's followed, appropriately enough, by even more resolution-declaring regarding a reduction in beer-drinking.? Which is soon enough followed by more beer-drinking, of course, which is in turn followed by vocal promises to an unnamed deity to "never drink again."?
*ahem*
So anyway, I kind of agree that a properly-functioning goal-oriented person doesn't need artificial spurs like New Year's Day to create goals.? We really ought to be constantly evaluating our paths and crafting new markers on a regular basis.?
Doesn't happen, though, does it?
Even if it does, even if you're a goal-setting maven from way back, you still need to pick a day and time at some point in the year to sit down and craft/evaluate your annual goals.? Why annual goals?? Well, they're probably the easiest to create and track, because weekly and monthly goals, if they're kept achievable, are often not grand enough to get us excited (though please don't assume I'm downplaying their importance!), while multi-year goals are usually so far out that we don't see much movement toward them.? But I can see next year, all in one happy calendar, and in looking at next year I can plan for some pretty splendiferous achievements.? The plans for those achievements will require weekly and monthly goals, to be certain.? And the annual goals I set should, in turn, play into what I'm hoping to accomplish in the next 3-5 years.? But it helps to start looking at one thing at a time, and annual goals are my favorite spot to start from.?
So, what day and time makes sense to sit down and look at your annual goals?? Doesn't technically matter.? At work, for example, I set some goals based on July to June calculations, because that's what my accreditation agency is tracking.? If you, too, are burdened with external agency "fiscal year" considerations, then go with those.? But most of us aren't, at least not for our personal and business goals.? So--wanna set goals on February 14th?? Nah, didn't think so; there's too much chocolate to be eaten and wine to be drunk on that day, right?? A random day, perhaps, like April 28th or August 20th?? Nah, too random.? So why not use the calendar year since so many of us use normal calendars on a regular basis??
So, that's why I'm suggesting we go with goal-setting activities at the end of December for a Jan 1 - Dec 31 period.? It's not because I think New Year's Resolutions have any particular merit, but rather because it's just a fairly obvious choice given the basic calendar structure.?
Soon to come: Looking to 2013.
- TOSK
Source: http://theotherstephenkingonwriting.blogspot.com/2012/12/why-new-years-goals.html
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Yesterday I offered a brief overview of some of the first key steps in the process of building a home in Mexico.? Today?s post offers a closer overview of an all-important topic ? permits.
Permits
One of the most important early items will be the permits.? As one builder puts it, the only permit needed to proceed with building is a construction permit, which is granted by the municipality; however, there are permits needed to gain this permit, and others that could cause complications later on (such as fines or even putting the project on hold) if they are not in place.
Permits are not the same for each project.? For example, a home built next to the beach in places like Playa del Carmen will require several environmental permits from the federal and state governments.? (It must also be noted that there are plenty of lots in the Playa del Carmen real estate area that are within a short distance to the beach, but do not require any extra permits.)
In cases where a lot is wooded, there are permit to remove the vegetation. This can be avoided by buying a prepared lot; if someone chooses a ?raw? lot to save money, the will need to consider not only the cost of clearing, but also the cost of the permit to remove the vegetation and the time to gain this permit.? This item will need to be considered in markets like Tulum real estate, where much of the area is still jungle. Often agreements to leave a significant portion of the trees standing can make the process easier, and add value to the property.
There are also documents that prove that a property owner is indeed paying their workers, perhaps involving unions, depending on who is hired to do the work.? These documents will not be required to validate the building, but offer protection for the owner down the road.
Even the building permit itself will require several ?endorsements;? for example, it will need a stamp of approval from Hacienda, which is Mexico?s equivalent to the IRA, as well as the Health Department.
Again, an experienced professional will know best which permits are necessary and how to navigate through the process of obtaining them.? Property owners who decide to give it a go on their own should proceed carefully, taking all necessary time to do their homework before beginning any preparation or step of construction, talking to people who have built in the same community to ensure they have necessary permits and have covered their grounds.
Andy Welbourne, from London, Ontario, has been living in Playa del Carmen and working as a part of the team with Thomas Lloyd for 7 years. He has worked with many Canadians and Americans to assist in finding their dream home in the Mexican Caribbean; many of these clients have turned into great friendships. Contact Andy at (512) 879-6546.
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Scientologists may be facing their most daunting court case yet, and all it took was for someone to stop calling them a cult. After a years long legal battle, federal prosecutors in?Belgium now believe their investigation is complete enough to charge the Church of Scientology and its leaders as a criminal organization on charges of extortion, fraud, privacy breaches, and the illegal practice of medicine. "The decision follows years of investigation that was triggered by a complaint by the Labour Mediation Service in the Brussels Region. ...
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SINGAPORE (AP) ? A young Indian woman who was gang-raped and severely beaten on a bus died Saturday at a Singapore hospital, after her horrific ordeal galvanized Indians to demand greater protection for women from sexual violence that impacts thousands of them every day.
She "passed away peacefully" with her family and officials of the Indian embassy by her side," said Dr. Kevin Loh, the chief executive of Mount Elizabeth hospital where she had been treated since Thursday. "The Mount Elizabeth Hospital team of doctors, nurses and staff join her family in mourning her loss," he said in a statement.
He said the woman had remained in an extremely critical condition since Thursday when she was flown to Singapore from India. "Despite all efforts by a team of eight specialists in Mount Elizabeth Hospital to keep her stable, her condition continued to deteriorate over these two days. She had suffered from severe organ failure following serious injuries to her body and brain. She was courageous in fighting for her life for so long against the odds but the trauma to her body was too severe for her to overcome."
The woman and a male friend, who have not been identified, were traveling in a public bus in the Indian capital, New Delhi, after watching a film on the evening of Dec. 16 when they were attacked by six men who raped her. They also beat the couple and inserted an iron rod into her body resulting in severe organ damage. Both of them were then stripped and thrown off the bus, according to police.
Indian police have arrested six people in connection with the attack, which left the victim with severe internal injuries, a lung infection and brain damage. She also suffered from a heart attack while in hospital in India.
Indian High Commissioner, or ambassador, T.C.A. Raghanvan told reporters that the scale of the injuries she suffered was "very grave" and in the end it "proved too much.
He said arrangements are being made to take her body back to India.
The frightening nature of the crime shocked Indians, who have come out in their thousands for almost daily demonstrations, demanding stronger protection for women and death penalty for rape, which is now punishable by a maximum life imprisonment. Women face daily harassment across India, ranging from catcalls on the streets, groping and touching in public transport to rape.
But the tragedy has forced India to confront the reality that sexually assaulted women are often blamed for the crime, which forces them to keep quiet and not report it to authorities for fear of exposing their families to ridicule. Also, police often refuse to accept complaints from those who are courageous enough to report the rapes and the rare prosecutions that reach courts drag on for years.
After 10 days at a New Delhi hospital, the victim was brought to the Mount Elizabeth hospital, which specializes in multi-organ transplant. But by late Friday, the young woman's condition had "taken a turn for the worse" and her vital signs had deteriorated. It was clear then that she would not survive long.
Indian attitudes toward rape are so entrenched that even politicians and opinion makers have often suggested that women should not go out at night or wear clothes that might be seen provocative.
Other politicians have come under fire for comments insulting the protesters and diminishing the crime.
On Friday, Abhijit Mukherjee, a national lawmaker and the son of India's president, apologized for calling the protesters "highly dented and painted" women, who go from discos to demonstrations.
"I tender my unconditional apology to all the people whose sentiments got hurt," he told NDTV news.
Separately, authorities in Punjab took action Thursday when an 18-year-old woman killed herself by drinking poison a month after she told police she was gang-raped.
State authorities suspended one police officer and fired two others on accusations they delayed investigating and taking action in the case. The three accused in the rape were only arrested Thursday night, a month after the crime was reported.
"This is a very sensitive crime, I have taken it very seriously," said Paramjit Singh Gill, a top police officer in the city of Patiala.
The Press Trust of India reported that the woman was raped Nov. 13 and reported the attack to police Nov. 27. But police harassed the girl, asked her embarrassing questions and took no action against the accused, PTI reported, citing police sources.
Authorities in the eastern state of Chhattisgarh also suspended a police officer on accusations he refused to register a rape complaint from a woman who said she had been attacked by a driver.
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Associated Press writer Faris Mokhtar and Ravi Nessman in New Delhi contributed to this report.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/indian-rape-victim-dies-hospital-215914078.html
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MEXICO CITY (AP) ? The plan is as big as this mammoth city: Turn a seedy metro hub into Mexico City's Times Square; clear swarms of feisty vendors and remodel the historic Alameda Central; illuminate the plazas and walkways of a park twice the size of New York's Central Park.
Mexico City's government is trying to transform one of the world's largest cities by beautifying public spaces, parks and monuments buried beneath a sea of honking cars, street hawkers, billboards and grime following decades of dizzying urban growth.
Despite the challenges, the ambitious, multimillion-dollar program carried out by former center-left Mayor Marcelo Ebrard and continued by his successor, Miguel Angel Mancera, is winning praise from urban planners and many residents. And it's turning the metropolis into an experiment in how to soften urban sprawl.
"It's time to tame the city," said Juan Carlos de Leo Gandara, head of the Iberoamerican University's sustainable urban projects. "Today is about giving the city back to pedestrians."
In the Alameda, made iconic in the Diego Rivera mural "Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in the Alameda," concrete sidewalks were replaced by marble, and makeshift vendor stands were kicked out ? a renovation that cost about $18.7 million. Instead of a motley patchwork of folding tables and tarps, the newly opened park, anchored by the art nouveau Palacio de Bellas Artes theater, is a sea of greenery and calm in the midst of racing traffic.
"It used to be very dark, with no lighting. It really wasn't a place to bring my son," said Alma Rosa Romero, a 22-year-old housewife standing by the new dancing-water fountains, holding her child's hand. "Now it's beautiful."
Other completed projects include a once-neglected plaza with an Arc de Triumph-style monument to Mexico's 1910 revolution, which has been remade at a cost of $28.6 million from a homeless encampment to an oasis where families frolic and children run through spurts of water gushing out of the pavement. The copper dome of what started out as the country's Congress building is newly polished and gleaming.
Downtown, at the Chapel of the Immaculate Conception of Tlaxcoaque, the city has installed multi-colored fountains that light up at night and replaced a parking lot with a larger plaza for pedestrians. The city has also converted Gustavo I. Madero street in the historic center into a pedestrian walkway stretching to the Zocalo, the plaza that's home to the National Palace and massive Metropolitan Cathedral. And under a popular bridge near the hip neighborhood of Condesa, the city made way for a taco joint and a playground.
"A city where people go out to the streets is safe, happier and raises the quality of life," said Daniel Escotto, chief architect of Mexico City's Public Areas Office, which was founded in 2008 to manage urban renewal. "We are renovating floors, facades and adding plants and lighting and more elements that can shape this concept."
Yet in a city defined in many ways by its disorder, the plan is also being slammed by those who take pride in surviving the urban jungle.
"Yes it's safer, and it's renovated, but what happens to the emblem of Mexico City?" said Baltazar Romeo, 47, a hospital worker eating a sandwich at the newly remodeled Alameda. Gone were the street performers who once dressed as the Three Wise Men during Christmas and charged tips for photos with children. "The city is becoming soulless," Romeo said.
One of the flagship renovation projects is the once-seedy, swarming Glorieta de Insurgentes roundabout and metro station in central Mexico City, which sees hundreds of thousands of commuters pour through every day.
The circular plaza was sunk to let pedestrians stream below busy thoroughfares and catch their trains or buses or just hang out. Around its rim careen cars in a roundabout that briefly merges two of the city's biggest thoroughfares, the mighty Insurgentes and Chapultepec avenues.
When the plaza was built in 1969, the city's top priority was moving an onslaught of cars and people from one point to another. Highways and beltways elsewhere went up to cope with the population boom, and sprawl spread farther out. Once-famous and safe streets and plazas suffered from neglect by planners and became slum-like neighborhoods people avoided after sunset. A brown haze covered the new skyline as motorists became the focus of the new infrastructure.
The Insurgentes roundabout turned into a place to hurry through. Homeless people took over abandoned warehouses nearby while surrounding office and apartment buildings fell into disrepair. Many of the plaza's shops became sleazy Internet cafes cowering beneath giant billboards.
"It couldn't be more hostile to public life or pedestrian life," said Ken Greenberg, a Toronto-based architect and urban designer who recently visited Mexico. "The whole thing just has a kind of very harsh feeling of a highway right in the middle of the city."
Urban designers are now seeking to infuse the chaos with the glitzy excitement of Times Square or London's Piccadilly Circus. Sixty-foot cylinders covered with circular screens streaming LED tickers have already been erected. The crabgrass-filled flower beds and low benches used as skateboard launches have been bulldozed for a sleek open-air look bathed in white, patterned concrete.
The makeover is meant to create a more appealing space for commuters using bikes and public transit in a city that won infamy as the world's most painful for commuters in a 2011 IBM survey.
"What Mexico City needs is to emphasize its identity through its public spaces," Escotto said.
The government says the Insurgentes project will also debut a new model for restricting advertising to designated spots. In 2010, local government banned advertisements on all public and private buildings, threatening a $9,000 fine for those who refused to comply. Two years later, however, the city is still blanketed by billboards.
Future projects include a cleanup of 67 bridges around the city and more lighting for plazas and walkways throughout Chapultepec Park, Mexico City's grand urban green space.
Some projects, including the Insurgentes roundabout, are being completed with the help of private funds. The roundabout renovation includes $4.5 million from 15 advertising companies that are erecting the giant LED screens. Critics worry the arrangement will benefit private companies more than city residents. Much of the beautification of the historic center was paid for by telecommunications billionaire Carlos Slim.
Some wonder whether Mancera, who is from Ebrard's party, will continue the effort and whether the city has the money to maintain its improvements. The question for this teeming city is whether its attempt to clean up will hold or whether the sprawl will ultimately prove more powerful.
"How is this work going to look in the next five months, or five years?" asked De Leo Gandara of the Iberoamerican University. "Will they preserve it? Will it still be clean? Are they keeping it together or is it forgotten again?"
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Adriana Gomez Licon is on Twitter http://twitter.com/agomezlicon
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/mexico-city-seeks-beauty-public-space-makeover-184409680.html
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The holidays are a time to celebrate, but they can also be extremely stressful for addicts. Family problems and lack of money around this time of year cause many people to increase their drug or alcohol abuse or return to an old addiction. For these reasons, the holidays present a challenge to people who want to help friends or family members kick the habit. Here are some tips for approaching this situation.
1. Listen without judgment
Let the addict tell you what they?re experiencing with their addiction. Don?t dismiss their feelings or give them a self-righteous speech about their behavior, as this will only create feelings of guilt and make the addict want to continue abusing drugs and alcohol. Be empathetic and let them know that you understand.
2. Encourage the addict?s efforts at quitting
If the addict is improving in any way, let them know that you recognize their achievements and are proud of them. Recent progress in abstinence should be praised because it?s difficult at any time of year. Be sure to give genuine encouragement; avoid patronizing.
3. Stand your ground concerning addiction
It?s important for you to empathize with the addict, but always be clear on where you stand regarding their addiction. Don?t condone any form of drug or alcohol abuse, period. At the same time, don?t try to actively control any adult addict?s behavior. Let them learn their own lessons unless their actions put themselves or others at risk.
4. Keep stress to a minimum
Let go of the addict?s past failures and transgressions. Bringing up past events they are ashamed of will only feed their addiction. Do what you can to help the addict feel like part of the group, and avoid bringing up serious issues that might ruin the moment and drive the addict away, physically or emotionally.
5. Treat the addict lovingly
No treatment will be as effective as giving the addict your trust and love. Open you heart to the addict, making sure to let them know that you support their efforts to quit and want them to be happy.
6. Don?t humiliate the addict
Addicts are all different, but none are proud of being addicted. There?s no need to tell other people about the addict?s struggles or bring up private matters around others.
These are only general guidelines for helping an addict around the holidays. Always remember that rather than being bad people, addicts are simply struggling with something very challenging. With your support, the addict may have an easier time breaking free of addiction.
This post was written by Jeanie on behalf of Oklahoma drug rehab. In her spare time Jeanie loves to spend time with her two boys and bake.
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Beijing's 'strike hard' campaign aims to tame the anarchy that reigns at crosswalks and intersections. ?Our correspondent's take: 'Good luck.'
Firefighters march in a line crossing the street on Tiananmen Square, next to the Great Hall of the People, the venue of the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, in Beijing, November 14.
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EnlargeBeijing?s finest, ever vigilant on the law-and-order front, have set themselves a challenging new task: to eradicate the phenomenon known as ?crossing the road, Chinese-style.?
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A new ?strike hard? campaign, launched last week, is aimed at ?bringing order to traffic and security? at the city?s intersections, according to the Beijing municipal police website.
Good luck to them.
The police appear to have been goaded into action not so much by the anarchy that has long reigned on most Beijing streets, but by an online comment that went viral a few weeks ago.
A blogger remarked ? entirely accurately ? that crossing the road with Chinese characteristics has nothing to do with whether the lights are red or green. The determining factor is how many people are waiting on the curb. Once a crowd has reached critical mass, it moves.
As more and more Beijingers buy cars, and drive them without necessarily bothering to get a license, life for the city?s crowds of pedestrians and its diminishing band of cyclists has grown increasingly hazardous.
Pedestrian fatalities in China are 18 times higher, per 100,000 motorized vehicles, than in the United States, according to Ni Ying, who did her doctoral thesis on the dangers of Chinese crossroads.
?High rates of pedestrian noncompliance and low rates of driver-yielding behavior? accounted for the Chinese statistics, she concluded.
Jaywalking is a national habit that the capital?s police would like to break, but they are not training their sights on pedestrians alone. The goal, says the official website warning, is also to enforce drivers? lane discipline and to stop cyclists crashing red lights, carrying passengers on the back seat, and riding the wrong way up cycle lanes.
This is nothing less than an assault on a fundamental right that all Chinese citizens hold dear: to do precisely as they please on the public highway.
I walk, ride my bike, and drive my car all the time in Beijing, and frankly it is a miracle that I am still alive. Not least because after living here for six years, I have gone native when it comes to traffic etiquette.
I still recall the sense of pride with which I rode my bicycle the wrong way up a street for the first time, taking a call on my mobile phone. I felt like a true Beijinger. And the quaint idea that I should stop at a red light rather than weave a path through the cars getting in my way is one that I abandoned a long time ago.
I am better behaved behind the wheel of my 1980s Jeep Cherokee (an ideal, bullock-like vehicle in which to navigate the city?s traffic). But even then the frustration of watching other drivers jam up an intersection by ignoring the simplest rules of the road, not to mention elementary courtesy, can tempt me to barge into the melee myself.
In my family, we have coined a verb for the sort of inconsiderate and patently illegal behavior to which my wife and I occasionally sink, such as sailing past a highway traffic jam in the emergency vehicle lane: We call that ?to Beijing it.?
If the city police have their way, that kind of description will soon be history. But I wouldn?t hold my breath.
The Beijing police department is running a little quiz on its ?weibo,? a Twitter-like platform, asking people why they think Beijingers are so careless on the road. The two most popular answers so far are ?a weak sense of the law? and ?low levels of public morality and civic responsibility.?
It will take more than a few traffic fines to deal with those problems, I?m afraid. And I say that as one who, to his shame, knows whereof he speaks.
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This is a series of Q&As with new, young and up-and-coming science, health and environmental writers and reporters. They ? at least some of them ? have recently hatched in the Incubators (science writing programs at schools of journalism), have even more recently fledged (graduated), and are now making their mark as wonderful new voices explaining science to the public.
Today we introduce you to Alyssa Botelho (Twitter).
Hello, welcome to The SA Incubator. Let?s start from the beginning: where are you originally from?
I?m from a small college town in North Carolina called Davidson. Three years ago, I migrated north for college. I?m now in my last year at Harvard, where I study molecular biology and history of science.
How did you get into science and how did you get into writing? And how did these two trajectories fuse into becoming a science writer?
I?ve always felt an internal kick to get to the bottom of things. It was the feeling that drew me to science when I was old enough to read, and sparked a fascination of biology?how and why we work the way we do?when I hit high school. I come from a family of classical musicians, and trained in ballet for fifteen years. So when I was little, I lived a sort of double life: that of a young scientist and a ballet dancer.
It was because I missed ballet that I discovered journalism. I was in my first year of college?training three or four hours a week in the dance studio instead of thirty?and frustrated. A friend pushed me to join the Arts section of the college paper. I would get free tickets to watch Boston Ballet if I wrote reviews. So I joined. And that?s how my parallel educations in the biochemistry lab and the newsroom of The Harvard Crimson began.
In the lab, I learned that doing science means being comfortable in a constant state of not knowing enough?of trying to distill details, getting the big picture, judging competing interpretations of data, and worrying, ?Is this true?? It is a way of working that I discovered as a scientist?and fell in love with as a reporter.
What professional experience you have had so far?publications, internships, jobs? Feel free to include a bunch of links here! What is your current job?
After working as an arts writer for two years at the Crimson, I transitioned to hard news and science journalism. This December, I finished a year-long run as a general news and science editor at the paper. Two classmates and I directed the paper?s bi-weekly science section together.
In 2011 I worked at the Nieman Foundation, where I had the chance to write about a number of leading global health journalists. Last summer I worked as a science and health reporting intern at The Washington Post. Next summer, I?ll be a reporting intern at The Boston Globe. For now, I?m focused on writing my thesis, and graduating.
How do you see the current and future science media ecosystem, how it differs from the past, and what role will new, young science communicators like yourself play in building it and making it the best it can be?
Scientists tell us new stories about our world by meticulously collecting and weaving together bits of hard-earned data. A Post journalist once told me that this work, in essence, is evidence-based reporting. From the storytellers of the laboratory, I believe, comes a model for sharper, more rigorous news reporting. Science writers can lead the way.
With every new app and interface comes the opportunity to make this evidence-based reporting more vivid and more democratic. But no matter how the facts are presented?through photos, videos, data visualization, 140 characters or 14,000?the standard for accurate reporting and tightly crafted narrative will remain the same. It is a daunting task: to do more, and faster, without sacrificing the principles. I?m eager to learn, and join in the challenge.
What is the favorite story you?ve written?
Last spring, I had a chance to interview E.O. Wilson for a story about his newest book, The Social Conquest of Earth. In the process, I was able to speak with James Watson and Richard Lewontin. These three biologists are starkly different thinkers?but all are avid writers. Hearing their stories was an honor. That week of reporting is one of my favorite college memories.
I also had great fun reporting on AIDS vaccine research for the Post and writing about a mysterious sleep disorder in the blind for the Globe.
Do you write a personal or science blog? How much do you use social media networks, e.g., Twitter, Facebook, Google Plus, Tumblr, Pinterest, Flickr, YouTube etc., to promote your own and your friends? work, to learn and to connect?
Last summer I sat across from the prolific Post reporter Joel Achenbach, who started blogging in 2005. (Achenblog was around even before blogs were cool.) He inspired me to give it a try, so I?m blogging this year at www.alyssabotelho.com as a sort of senior project. There you can find my clips, a stream of posts, and updates on my thesis research. I?m writing about a battle in 1976 over the construction of a lab at Harvard dedicated to work with recombinant DNA. The technology, which allows scientists to swap genes between organisms, is now commonplace. But in the 1970s, recombinant DNA drew sharp divides around the country?and among Harvard?s own biologists. In my thesis, I?m trying to piece together a local history of the recombinant DNA fight in Cambridge. It?s turning out to be a rather amazing tale about the rise of biotechnology in counterculture-era America.
I keep track of science-y happenings through Twitter, the blogosphere, and word-of-laboratory. But I tune into the radio and read a newspaper whenever I can.
Thank you!
Thank you so much.
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Previously in this series:
Kristina Ashley Bjoran
Emily Eggleston
Erin Podolak
Rachel Nuwer
Hannah Krakauer
Rose Eveleth
Nadia Drake
Kelly Izlar
Jack Scanlan
Francie Diep
Maggie Pingolt
Jessica Gross
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