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It seems that everything Wes Anderson touches turns out sweet adorableness (or saccharine crap, depending on your tolerance). That is certainly true for this Sony Xperia ad, directed by master of twee himself. His new creation follows the release of some Hyundai commercials earlier this month. More »

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Top 5 NOLA Coffee Date Spots | invadeNOLA

Yes, I might belong in an episode of Portlandia due to my love of coffee shops but hear me out. As an alternative to ?grabbing a drink?, a coffee date can allow for a belligerent-free meet up and quality time to discover your mutual love for people watching or blackout poetry. In selecting these New Orleans cafes, I considered not just the quality of coffee or expresso but also: crowdness, noise-level, interior environment, variety of drink and food options, price and location. Here are the top five cuppas:

1. Il Posto Cafe, 4607 Dryades St, Uptown
This artisanal cafe has a minimal, rustic interior,?reminiscent of an Italian country-home, that serves phenomenally fresh food and drinks.? Because it?s off the beaten path, snagging a table engulfed in warm sunlight usually isn?t a challenge. This Uptown spot is enchanting, easygoing, and ideal for drinking coffee with a new love interest.
www.ilpostocafe-nola.com

2. Cafe du Monde, 800 Decatur St, French Quarter
Usually overlooked as a touristy spot, sipping cafe au laits at Cafe du Monde is a great date option. Perfect for people watching, it has the buzz of a diverse crowd and rhythmic clinking of cups and dishes. And although the pigeon?s commotion might blow the beignet white powder dust up in a cloud, it?s totally romantic.
http://www.cafedumonde.com/

3. Cafe NOMA, #1 Collins Diboll Circle, City Park, Mid-City
This cafe is snuggled inside the New Orleans Museum of Art and it?s interior is punctuated with fine art and bright flowers. Providing a poetic view, it?s wall to ceiling length windows gaze out to City Park. And if the coffee runs out but the date is still going strong, Cafe NOMA has a variety of small dishes and sandwiches that could help feed any continued date appetite.
http://www.cafenoma.com/

4. Fair Grinds, 3133 Ponce De Leon St, Mid-City
Tucked right off of Esplanade, this community favorite would serve well for a casual date. You can feel good about indulging on a vegan cupcake and expresso because the shop has heart felt?intentions (all it?s beans are from fair trading). I?d suggest soaking up your drinks on the patio area to fully experience Fair Grind?s laid-back vibe.

5. Satsuma Cafe, 3218 Dauphine St, Marigny/Bywater
This brick-walled, art-filled Marigny hotspot makes a great first impression. It is literally fresh and peachy or should I say ?satsumy? since it?s name originates from the local citrus fruit. I?m appreciative of it?s creative menu; It offers a variety of light, delicious food but not forgetting the essential coffee options. Satsuma allows for no-pressure conversation and provides pleasant distractions.
http://satsumacafe.com

+ A special thanks to all my lovely friends who accompanied me through a week of caffeine overload and provided lovely insight and company.

Amanda LaPlaca is a creative designer from Brooklyn, NYC. She is an avid calendar filler (volunteering, events, etc) and loves being on the go but relaxes each day in her Uptown backyard garden after a long bike ride. www.amlaplaca.blogspot.com + www.amandalaplaca.com

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Better organic electronics: Researchers show the way forward for improving organic and molecular electronic devices

ScienceDaily (Mar. 20, 2012) ? Future prospects for superior new organic electronic devices are brighter now thanks to a new study by researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). Working at the Lab's Molecular Foundry, a DOE nanoscience center, the team has provided the first experimental determination of the pathways by which electrical charge is transported from molecule-to-molecule in an organic thin film. Their results also show how such organic films can be chemically modified to improve conductance.

"We have shown that when the molecules in organic thin films are aligned in particular directions, there is much better conductance," says Miquel Salmeron, a leading authority on nanoscale surface imaging who directs Berkeley Lab's Materials Sciences Division and who led this study. "Chemists already know how to fabricate organic thin films in a way that can achieve such an alignment, which means they should be able to use the information provided by our methodology to determine the molecular alignment and its role on charge transport across and along the molecules. This will help improve the performances of future organic electronic devices."

Salmeron and Shaul Aloni, also of the Materials Sciences Division, are the corresponding authors of a paper in the journal NanoLetters that describes this work. The paper is titled "Electron Microscopy Reveals Structure and Morphology of One Molecule Thin Organic Films." Other co-authors were Virginia Altoe, Florent Martin and Allard Katan.

Organic electronics, also known as plastic or polymer electronics, are devices that utilize carbon-based molecules as conductors rather than metals or semiconductors. They are prized for their low costs, light weight and rubbery flexibility. Organic electronics are also expected to play a big role in molecular computing, but to date their use has been hampered by low electrical conductance in comparison to metals and semiconductors.

"Chemists and engineers have been using their intuition and trial-and-error testing to make progress in the field but at some point you hit a wall unless you understand what is going on at the molecular level, for example, how electrons or holes flow through or across molecules, how the charge transport depends on the structure of the organic layers and the orientation of the molecules, and how the charge transport responds to mechanical forces and chemical inputs," Salmeron says. "With our experimental results, we have shown that we can now provide answers for these questions."

In this study, Salmeron and his colleagues used electron diffraction patterns to map the crystal structures of molecular films made from monolayers of short versions of commonly used polymers containing long chains of thiophene units. They focused specifically on pentathiophene butyric acid (5TBA) and two of its derivatives (D5TBA and DH5TBA) that were induced to self-assemble on various electron-transparent substrates. Pentathiophenes -- molecules containing a ring of four carbon and one sulfur atoms -- are members of a well-studied and promising family of organic semiconductors.

Obtaining structural crystallographic maps of monolayer organic films using electron beams posed a major challenge, as Aloni explains.

"These organic molecules are extremely sensitive to high energy electrons," he says. "When you shoot a beam of high energy electrons through the film it immediately affects the molecules. Within few seconds we no longer see the signature intermolecular alignment of the diffraction pattern. Despite this, when applied correctly, electron microscopy becomes essential tool that can provide unique information on organic samples."

Salmeron, Aloni and their colleagues overcame the challenge through the combination of a unique strategy they developed and a transmission electron microscope (TEM) at the Molecular Foundry's Imaging and Manipulation of Nanostructures Facility. Electron diffraction patterns were collected as a parallel electron beam was scanned over the film, then analyzed by computer to generate structural crystallographic maps.

"These maps contain uncompromised information of the size, symmetry and orientation of the unit cell, the orientation and structure of the domains, the degree of crystallinity, and any variations on the micrometer scale," says first author Altoe. "Such data are crucial to understanding the structure and electrical transport properties of the organic films, and allow us to track small changes driven by chemical modifications of the support films."

In their paper, the authors acknowledge that to gain structural information they had to sacrifice some resolution.

"The achievable resolution of the structural map is a compromise between sample radiation hardness, detector sensitivity and noise, and data acquisition rate," Salmeron says. "To keep the dose of high energy electrons at a level the monolayer film could support and still be able to collect valuable information about its structure, we had to spread the beam to a 90 nanometer diameter. However a fast and direct control of the beam position combined with the use of fast and ultrasensitive detectors should allow for the use of smaller beams with a higher electron flux, resulting in a better than 10 nanometer resolution."

While the combination of organic molecular films and substrates in this study conduct electrical current via electron holes (positively-charged energy spaces), Salmeron and his colleagues say their structural mapping can also be applied to materials whose conductance is electron-based.

"We expect our methodology to have widespread applications in materials research," Salmeron says.

Aloni and Altoe say this methodology is now available at the Imaging and Manipulation of Nanostructures Facility for users of the Molecular Foundry.

This research was supported by the DOE Office of Science.

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A romantic comedy of environmental folly

Sara Reardon, reporter

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If you were an environmental research scientist, what would you do if you were handed an unlimited budget out of the blue? Using it to destroy an entire ecosystem, introduce an invasive species into a hostile environment and create a recreation park for one man would probably not top your list. But that?s the premise of the new romantic comedy Salmon Fishing in the Yemen which provides food for thought behind the shimmering romance.

Fred Jones (Ewan McGregor) is a fish scientist working for the UK government who receives a strange email from investment banker Harriet Chetwode-Talbot (Emily Blunt). A Yemeni sheikh (Amr Waked) wants to commission Jones to install a river in the Yemen desert and introduce Scottish salmon into it - so the sheikh can fly fish in his backyard.

Jones immediately turns him down, saying simply that the desert is too hot and, oh, it has no water. But he?s too late: the prime minister?s overzealous press secretary (Kristin Scott Thomas), hungry for a Middle East story with a positive spin, spots the proposal and turns it into a flagship project for British science. With his job in jeopardy and with his marriage on its last legs, Jones takes a leap of faith and commits to the project and the pretty investment banker.

Despite the magnitude of the undertaking, there?s little science to be seen here. At the start, Jones gives Chetwode-Talbot a sarcastic markerboard lecture of the project?s many hurdles: engineering the dam to trap water from freshwater aquifers uncovered while drilling, oxygenating the water to the right temperature for North Atlantic salmon, transporting 10,000 salmon across three time zones in giant holding tanks, and convincing the farm-bred creatures to swim up river and spawn - all of which, he assures her, will result in a river full of belly-up fish.

The next we see, though, the two are walking along the side of a canyon in Yemen, hair blowing in the desert wind as they gape at the massive scale of the project magicked into existence behind them. Of course, it would tax the audience of a movie billed as a rom-com to tolerate an hour-long lecture on aquaculture. The satirical 2010 book by Paul Torday, on which the movie is based, leaves more room to expose the details. But when Jones, with his $50 million budget, hires the engineering team who built the notorious Three Gorges Dam in China to set up shop in the Yemen, one wonders how they pulled it off - or managed to get so far in spite of the same controversies.

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Even with the romantic focus, the movie delves into some real issues about the short-sightedness of environmental projects forced on communities, however beautiful and peaceful those projects may initially seem. Jones? boss at Defra, tasked with collecting 10,000 native salmon from Scotland?s rivers, suddenly finds his picture splashed across the cover of every fishing enthusiast magazine in the U.K., denouncing him as ?the salmon snatcher.?

The idea goes down no better in Yemen. It?s hardly a spoiler to say that the idea of putting a river in the desert doesn?t thrill the sheikh?s neighbours, who object to his hubris. After tragedy strikes, Jones has a brilliant thought: ?Next time, we?ll engage the local community, make it their project and not just ours!? he exclaims, eyes shining with long-overdue enlightenment.

Though the metaphors are a bit laboured at times, it?s a sweet, lightly funny movie overall, and it?s always nice to see a scientist in a non-evil role. A very human scientist too: money, love, and the sheikh?s seductive talk of faith are enough to convince Jones to put aside his better scientific judgement and take on a project that, even the sheikh later laments was intended ?to glorify God, but now I fear it was to glorify man.? It certainly doesn?t glorify the poor salmon.

Salmon Fishing in the Yemen is currently showing in cinemas throughout the US. It opens in the UK on 20 April.

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Robert L. Cook Blog ? Have More Fun Online by Gaming

Gaming By Left Hand! free games online is one of those things where the total influence it has primarily rests on other considerations. So it is not uncommon to find yourself doing a lot of research and decision making. Many people have created more problems for themselves because they did not gather all the relevant facts. That is exactly why we advise you take a look at all of your options as it relates to getting the most for your efforts. You want to know what you are working with, so the following are some areas within this subject you should use the time to consider.

Online gaming represents fun for most people, plus they?re a nice way to socialize with others. Tens of millions play them, so if they were not a source of fun they would not bother with it. As with all other things, you?ll find some people better at games than others. When a person is getting involved with online gaming, that?s when it?s most true. The good news is that figuring out the lay of the land doesn?t have to be difficult. A positive attitude plus anything you need such as a left-handed mouse, as an example. What we want to do now is discuss a few proven tips and tricks for more victorious online gaming.

It is worthwhile for left-handed players to purchase left-handed mouses to make it easier to maneuver. Ambidextrous keyboards are also available. Ambidextrous keyboards come in two parts, which enables you to use them in the most convenient way. If you are really serious about getting the right gadgets, you can find a special keyboard for gamers, even one made for left handed players if you look hard enough. These keyboards cost more than most, so they are made for players who are willing to pay for this extra edge.

Just try not to be like the Terminator when you?re gaming. Good game play requires you to be at least a little bit humble. If you can do something a lot better than someone else, be cool about it and don?t bust their stones. Don?t get angry or anything like that when you lose a game. Be straight and even about it, tell them you enjoyed the game, congratulations, and thank them. Work to get better by identifying why you lost, and then try to improve. In time people will grow to like you there, and it?ll be a good thing.

Beyond all else, you should not forget to have fun with it. Games are meant to provide you with entertainment. Although they are not meant to replace real life. If you find that you are taking the game too seriously or that you are getting too wrapped up in it, step away from the left handed mouses and keyboard and do something else for a while. Get a divorce from your computer for a while or switch to a different game. If you aren?t having fun then the people you are playing with won?t have fun. That can be quite powerful if you take what is known about free arcade games and put it to use. We all know how much people like to complain about things, and that is one thing that really hardly ever gets anything done.

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Half the battle with anything is making decisions and following through with them. After saying all of that, it is time to move forward. You can blow off steam, meet new friends and practice your gaming skills with this type of game. The reason we can find so many online games right now is because they are meant to bring enjoyment to the user, if this weren?t happening you can bet there would not be so many. Great game players understand all of the different things that becoming good involves. Having the right equipment (like left handed mouses) is only a little bit of it. These tips have been provided in hope that you will learn a few things. Now get out there and have some fun!

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Super busy SXSW wraps up with poignant moment

Norah Jones performs her entire new album during the SXSW Music Festival in Austin, Texas on Saturday, March 17, 2012.(AP Photo/Jack Plunkett)

Norah Jones performs her entire new album during the SXSW Music Festival in Austin, Texas on Saturday, March 17, 2012.(AP Photo/Jack Plunkett)

Norah Jones performs her entire new album during the SXSW Music Festival in Austin, Texas on Saturday, March 17, 2012.(AP Photo/Jack Plunkett)

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) ? Stars of all stripes and celebrity hit town to close out South By Southwest, but it was a marching band that stole the show Saturday.

Members of the Austin High band watched their star turn in the premiere of filmmaker Emmett Malloy's "Big Easy Express," then joined documentary subjects Mumford & Sons, Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeroes and Old Crow Medicine Show in an outdoor concert at the University of Texas as the music conference fell into an exhausted heap on its final night.

Across town, Timbaland held a listening party at Perez Hilton's annual to-do. Norah Jones played her new album for an appreciative group of fans. Matthew McConaughey joined The Cult during a free concert. Punk rock icon Bob Mould played "Copper Blue" in its entirety, bringing out the graybeards. And Peter Buck and Mike Mills of R.E.M. joined The Posies and Blitzen Trapper in one final tribute to Big Star frontman Alex Chilton, who passed away two years ago as he was due to participate in SXSW.

Rumors of celebrity appearances swirled up and down Sixth Street, but few of them materialized as St. Patrick's Day revelers clogged downtown Austin in a frenzy of partying that didn't end till 2 a.m. last call.

Superstars such as Bruce Springsteen, Jay-Z, Eminem and others made this the busiest SXSW ever, overflowing with celebrity, secret performances and high-dollar endorsements that made sure the festival looked nothing like the humble event that started 25 years ago with just 200 bands spread over 12 clubs. With so much going on and plenty of places to get hammered on green beer, even the usually most exclusive events were easy to get into.

It took a bumpin' tuba line and a bunch of enthusiastic high school kids to shake off the glitzy veneer that had many longtime festival participants grumbling about the good old days and inject a little innocent joy back into the conference.

With the UT Tower lit up in the background, the band took the stage, then laid down a rolling groove before joining Mumford & Sons on "The Cave," recreating a powerful moment from "Big Easy Express" in front of thousands of fans on the lawn at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library.

"That's real music, ladies and gentlemen," Marcus Mumford told the crowd after the song. "That's real music from real people."

Afterwards fans surrounded marching band members on the street and chanted: "One more song! One more song!"

The love of making music and the community brought by close collaboration were the dominant themes of "Big Easy Express," which made its world premiere earlier in the day at the Paramount Theatre, then was replayed for the crowd before the night's concert.

Malloy follows the three bands as they made a train trip from California to New Orleans via Austin. They covered 2,500 miles in a week and a half, playing music almost every step of the way and enlisting Austin High to join the fun in one of the film's most delightful moments.

"Very few people have seen this film," said Malloy, whose previous credits include The White Stripes 2009 documentary "Under Great White Northern Lights." ''But the ones who have, everyone says they're very jealous that they weren't on (the train). They want to quit their day job and go be a freak. And I think the fact that this film evokes that kind of like, 'I want to get in touch with my wild side' is great. It's more emotional than I would've ever thought, and the fact that I was able to work with everything those guys were doing those days and create a little bit of an emotional journey, that put this film in a very special place."

The film is full of poignant moments as the bands bond in close quarters, jamming on each other's songs, writing new ones and taking old standards and making them new.

"We got on the train and you guys were just setting the tone, really playing music nonstop," said Alex Ebert, nodding to Mumford and OCMS member Gill Landry during a red carpet interview before the premiere. "It was a really powerful experience and one we jumped into probably willingly and happily. But I mean in that sense that's what we took away the most ? the preparedness, willingness and effort to constantly play music."

Over at Hilton's party, producer Timbaland took the stage after a long absence from the spotlight.

"I know you been missing me for a while," he said.

Timbaland bragged on his own group of favorite collaborators, saying that collaborator Dev was now a member of his "Superfriends" before launching into his latest single, "Break Ya Back," from his forthcoming album "Shock Value III." He also rapped and beat-boxed over abbreviated versions of some of his best-known songs.

"I don't know if I can get off the stage," he said. "I've got too many hits."

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Jockey Corey Nakatani, One of the Best Riders in North America

Corey Nakatani has long been a fixture among the very best jockeys riding in the United States today. He has won many of the biggest races that are run in the United States, and has even been chosen by many European trainers to ride their top fillies, mares and colts when the biggest event of the year, the Breeders' Cup World Championships, comes along every year at the end of October or early in November.
Nakatani is not a jockey that favors one type of surface over another. Indeed, a look at his surefire Hall-of-Fame record shows conclusively that he has run many prestigious, Grade I events featuring lucrative purses sometimes in the millions of dollars, and he has won those races on natural dirt in the slop or on a fast track, on dry grass or wet grass, and on every type of synthetic, whether it be Polytrack or ProRide.
At the the age of 28 years old, Nakatani graduated in Castaic, California from jockey training school. In 1988, he won his very first race aboard a horse by the name of Blue King. One notable thing about Corey's first win was the fact that it was, after a photo finish, determined to be a dead heat, making Nakatani the only jockey riding in the United States today who won his first race in an actual dead heat. He first gained national prominence in 1991 when, on the Friday before Kentucky Derby day at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky, he won the Kentucky Oaks in impressive fashion aboard a fine filly named Lite Light. He then won the Oaks again in 1996 atop Pike Place Dancer. Nakatani's reputation as a major stakes jockey was secure at that point, but it was in the 1996 Breeders' Cup that he really made himself a household name in the racing world.
He won two of the most prestigious Breeders' Cup races in the Breeders' Cup Distaff (now known as the Ladies' Classic) atop Jewel Princess and then won the Breeders' Cup Sprint on a colt named Lit de Justice. Since 1996, Nakatani has totally dominated the Breeders' Cup, and although he has yet to win the Breeders' Cup Classic, he has won a grand total of 4 times in the Breeders' Cup Sprint alone, and 7 total Breeders' Cup races.
2006 was a banner year for Nakatani, as on Memorial Day of that year he won his 3000th race at Hollywood Park. The one thing that Nakatani is still searching for is a Triple Crown victory, especially a Kentucky Derby victory. With the success that he has already had in racing, you can bet that Corey Nakatani will get plenty of chances at the Triple Crown races, whether it be the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness Stakes, or the Belmont Stakes.

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Heroes or villains? Latvian SS march angers Russians

RIGA (Reuters) - Veterans from a Latvian World War Two SS division and their nationalist backers marched through Riga on Friday, angering the country's large, Russian-speaking minority and drawing a rebuke from its former imperial master Moscow.

The marchers say their fight was for Latvian freedom against the Soviet Red Army after mass deportations under dictator Josef Stalin. Critics say it is wrong to honor men who fought on the same side as Nazi Germany.

About a hundred counter-demonstrators, mostly Russian-speakers who say Latvia discriminates against them, watched in silence as several hundred grey-haired veterans and young nationalist supporters walked past them through the city centre.

Some of the Russian-speaking protesters wore the striped uniforms of prisoners of Nazi concentration camps. They also held placards with photos of people murdered in the Holocaust.

"This resurrection of nationalism like in the 1930s has been going on for the last 20 years and we don't like it," said Grigory Drozdov, 69, a Russian-speaking pensioner.

Russia's foreign ministry called the SS veterans "Hitler's henchmen" and said the "odious" march was an attempt to re-write history and whitewash Nazi atrocities.

"We believe that the Latvian authorities' indulgence of the former legionnaires and the attempts to rewrite history should be met with an appropriate reaction from the international community," the ministry said in a statement.

Russia, proud of its World War Two role and seeing the Soviet Union as having liberated Latvia and the other Balts from the Nazis, has reacted angrily to such events in the past.

The Latvian government had distanced itself from the commemoration, an annual event which also angers Jewish leaders. Police had warned it could cause trouble but it passed off peacefully.

"We have come here to honor our dead, it is very important to do that," said marcher Janis Johanson, 82, who said he was forced to join one of the Latvian SS divisions at the age of 18 and fought in 1944-1945.

"If you did not join up you were shot as a deserter. That was it. That was what happened in a time of war," he said. Many Latvians also fought in the Red Army, showing how the small country squeezed between two powerful neighbors.

Young men and women holding the national flag on long poles flanked the marchers, who then laid flowers at the Freedom Monument, a key symbol of Latvian independence.

Latvia's Jewish Community organization issued a statement opposing the march. Ephraim Zuroff, a Nazi hunter at the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, said men who massacred Latvian Jews later joined the SS units, as well as those forcibly conscripted.

"This is a horrible message here. You are talking about people who wanted the Third Reich to win, some of whom are mass murderers," he told Reuters.

ETHNIC DIVIDE

The Baltic state was left with a large Russian minority after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

Though Latvia last month overwhelmingly rejected making Russian a second language, the holding of the vote was seen as a sign of discontent by the Russian-speakers in the face of what some see as discrimination by the ethnic Latvian ruling elite.

Many Russian-speakers also still feel resentment they had to apply for citizenship of Latvia after the Soviet collapse and that there are still 300,000 people who have no citizenship, which means no right to vote or take certain jobs.

Some Latvians see the Russian-speakers as illegal occupiers who came during 50 years of Soviet rule.

But the march is also controversial amongst Latvians and a poll of 750 people on Friday showed 49 percent were against it.

Prime Minister Valdis Dombrovskis told all his coalition ministers to stay away, including two nationalists from the All For Latvia-For Fatherland and Freedom group.

The Foreign Ministry also said in a statement this week that Latvia condemned the Holocaust and totalitarianism.

All For Latvia-For Fatherland and Freedom, the smallest of three ruling parties, are the main backers of the march. Several of its 14 members of parliament took part.

(Reporting by Patrick Lannin; Editing by Philippa Fletcher)

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North Korea says it will launch long-range rocket

FILE - In this April 5, 2009 image made from KRT video, a rocket is lifted off from its launch pad in Musudan-ri, North Korea. North Korea announced Friday, March 16, 2012, it plans to launch a long-range rocket mounted with a satellite next month, a surprise move that comes weeks after it agreed to nuclear concessions including a moratorium on long-range missile tests. The launch plan comes as North Korea prepares to celebrate the April 15 centenary of the birth of its founder, Kim Il Sung. (AP Photo/KRT TV, File) NORTH KOREA OUT, TV OUT

FILE - In this April 5, 2009 image made from KRT video, a rocket is lifted off from its launch pad in Musudan-ri, North Korea. North Korea announced Friday, March 16, 2012, it plans to launch a long-range rocket mounted with a satellite next month, a surprise move that comes weeks after it agreed to nuclear concessions including a moratorium on long-range missile tests. The launch plan comes as North Korea prepares to celebrate the April 15 centenary of the birth of its founder, Kim Il Sung. (AP Photo/KRT TV, File) NORTH KOREA OUT, TV OUT

FILE - In this April 5, 2009 image made from KRT video, a rocket is lifted off from its launch pad in Musudan-ri, North Korea. North Korea announced Friday, March 16, 2012, it plans to launch a long-range rocket mounted with a satellite next month, a surprise move that comes weeks after it agreed to nuclear concessions including a moratorium on long-range missile tests. The launch plan comes as North Korea prepares to celebrate the April 15 centenary of the birth of its founder, Kim Il Sung. (AP Photo/KRT TV, File) NORTH KOREA OUT, TV OUT

PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) ? North Korea announced plans Friday to launch a long-range rocket mounted with a satellite next month, a provocative move just weeks after it agreed to nuclear concessions including a moratorium on long-range missile tests.

North Korea argues that such launches are part of a peaceful space program that is exempt from any disarmament agreements, but the U.S., South Korea and other critics condemn them as disguised tests of the North's military missile technology in violation of a U.N. ban.

The launch is to take place exactly three years after similar launch in April 2009 drew widespread censure.

Liftoff will take place between April 12 and 16 from a launch pad in North Phyongan province, a spokesman for the Korean Committee for Space Technology said in a statement carried by state media. The North said the launch would be a test of satellite technology.

The plan comes as North Korea prepares to celebrate the April 15 centenary of the birth of its founder, Kim Il Sung. Kim's grandson, Kim Jong Un, has led the nation of 24 million since his father, Kim Jong Il, died in December.

North Korea agreed last month to suspend uranium enrichment, place a moratorium on nuclear and long-range missile tests, and to allow back U.N. weapons inspectors in exchange for much-needed food aid. Uranium enrichment is one way to make atomic bombs. In the past North Korea has also weaponized plutonium for nuclear devices.

North Korea called the April 2009 launch a bid to send a communications satellite into space, but it was widely viewed in the West as a violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions prohibiting North Korea from engaging in nuclear and ballistic missile activity.

Shortly after the 2009 launch, Pyongyang declared that it would abandon six-nation negotiations on offering the North aid and concessions in exchange for nuclear disarmament. And weeks later, North Korea tested a nuclear device, the second in three years ? earning the regime tightened U.N. sanctions.

North Korea is proud of its nuclear and missile programs, which it claims are necessary to protect itself against the United States, which stations more than 28,000 troops in South Korea and has thousands more troops as well as nuclear-powered warships in Asia-Pacific region.

North Korea and the United States fought on opposite sides of the three-year Korean War, which ended in a truce in 1953. They have never signed a peace treaty.

North Korea is believed to have enough weaponized plutonium for four to eight "primitive" atomic bombs, according to scientist Siegfried Hecker of the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University.

Pyongyang also announced in 2009 that it would begin enriching uranium, and revealed the facility to Hecker and North Korea expert Robert Carlin during a November 2010 visit to the Yongbyon nuclear complex.

The North Korean space committee spokesman said a Kwangmyongsong-3 satellite designed to orbit the earth will be mounted on an Unha-3 rocket from the Sohae station in Cholsan County. He called it a "working" satellite that was an improvement over two previous "experimental" satellites.

The spokesman said North Korea would abide by international regulations governing the launch of satellites for "peaceful" scientific purposes and that an orbit was chosen to avoid showering debris on neighboring nations.

North Korea provided similar notice in 2009, but launched the rocket despite warnings from world leaders that it would set the nation on a path of isolation.

In 2009, North Korea said an experimental communications satellite mounted on a three-stage Unha-2 rocket was sent into space playing "Song of Gen. Kim Il Sung" and "Song of Gen. Kim Jong Il."

The U.S. North American Aerospace Defense Command and South Korea's Defense Ministry said no satellite made it into orbit.

In Seoul, the Unification Ministry said it had no comment Friday. South Korea is due to host the Nuclear Security Summit in Seoul in two weeks, and North Korea's nuclear program was expected to be discussed on the sidelines of the gathering of world leaders.

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Associated Press writer Jean H. Lee contributed to this report from Seoul, South Korea.

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'American Idol' singer out after 'One Sweet Day'

In this March 14, 2012 image released by Fox, contestant Shannon Magrane performs on the singing competition series, "American Idol," in Los Angeles. Magrane known for her soaring voice and towering over "Idol" host Ryan Seacrest, was eliminated from the Fox singing competition Thursday. Magrane was dismissed after reprising her rendition of Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men's "One Sweet Day." She failed to persuade the show's judges to save her from being booted. (AP Photo/Fox, Carin Baer)

In this March 14, 2012 image released by Fox, contestant Shannon Magrane performs on the singing competition series, "American Idol," in Los Angeles. Magrane known for her soaring voice and towering over "Idol" host Ryan Seacrest, was eliminated from the Fox singing competition Thursday. Magrane was dismissed after reprising her rendition of Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men's "One Sweet Day." She failed to persuade the show's judges to save her from being booted. (AP Photo/Fox, Carin Baer)

FILE - In this March 7, 2012 file photo released by Fox, contestant Jermaine Jones performs on the singing competition series "American Idol," in Los Angeles. The 25-year-old singer from Pine Hill, N.J., tweeted Tuesday night, March 13, 2012 that he would no longer be on the Fox singing contest. (AP Photo/Fox, Michael Becker, File)

LOS ANGELES (AP) ? It wasn't such a sweet day for Shannon Magrane on "American Idol."

The 16-year-old vocalist from Tampa, Fla., known for her soaring voice and towering over "Idol" host Ryan Seacrest, was eliminated from the Fox singing competition Thursday. Magrane was dismissed after reprising her rendition of Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men's "One Sweet Day." She failed to persuade the show's judges to save her from being booted.

"It feels so good standing on this stage," she said after her elimination.

Magrane was revealed to be among the bottom three vote-getters with 28-year-old teacher Elise Testone, of Charleston, S.C., and 26-year-old disc jockey Erika Van Pelt, of South Kingstown, R.I. The judges, who lauded Testone's soulful performance of Tina Turner's 1983 edition of "Let's Stay Together," were noticeably dissatisfied with the viewers' picks.

"I just feel that the great performances should be rewarded," Jennifer Lopez said.

This week's elimination of Magrane and the disqualification of Jermaine Jones, the 25-year-old vocal instructor from Pine Hill, N.J., who was booted for not revealing that he had outstanding arrest warrants back home in New Jersey, leaves 10 finalists remaining in the competition. They will return to the stage to perform for viewer votes next Wednesday.

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Student Education Loans And The Expense Of An Education And ...

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Average student loan debts reach 9, 620 and nine from every 10 students now borrows to finance their particular university education. But who provides a non-working scholar money to finance a student life?

The typical student entering advanced schooling will right now leave university with financial obligations of close to 10, 000. This consists from a mix of student education loans, credit cards and overdrafts. This specific figure however is defined to sky detonate as Barclays surmises students graduating in 2010 will be facing 26, 000 associated with debt.

While some figures show that graduates can expect greater than average income, students may well not actually take well-paid jobs for a number of years soon after graduating leaving behind. Unfortunately for a few, this kind of premium inside earnings may never even be sufficient to clear their accumulated personal debt.

The best way to prevent the struggle is always to find out about and prepare yourself for each cost involved over the amount of our course such as the time it could take you to locate a job afterwards.

Firstly, expenses fees you need to these pay for the specific course you want to simply take. Prior to 1999 the government covered the whole cost. However now, an increasing appetite for degree forced the federal government to improve the device. It was also validated by claims that during their working lives, a graduate can earn {400}, 000 higher than a non-graduate.

Nonetheless, maybe not everyone must pay school fees. If your parents? combined earnings are usually under a particular threshold they will not have to pay. From the threshold up, the contributions work on a slippage scale.

Although, regardless of their earnings, the maximum any family has to pay amounts to around a quarter of the entire cost of the course each year. This is estimated to be around give consideration to, 000 and the Government may still get the bill for the remaining amount.

When you are accepted into a course you ought to connect with the local Education Expert (LEA) to discover what type of financial help you can obtain.

Considering taking out that loan to fund your study course? Almost all students should take out more than one figuratively speaking to cover their day-to-day existing. They are unsecured loans by having an especially low interest that reflects the pace of inflation meaning you simply repay the exact amount a person borrowed.

If you are likely to sign up for financing you ought to contact your own LEA at the same time you apply for support toward tuition charges. The LEA may assess the quantity of loan you are entitled to and invite one to request just how much you intend to make an application for. You need to then inform the student loans company (SLC) of the amount agreed and it will pay the money into your account on the first time of phrase. Note also that you will be eligible for more funds if you are studying working in london.

It is possible to make an application for one loan for each year of one?s course and you don?t have to begin making repayments before April (conclusion of duty year) once you graduate. There after, you will only start trying to repay the loan if you are earning above a specific threshold.

Then the amount you pay off monthly will depend on just how much you might be earning. In the unlikely event that you never earn over the threshold, the actual loan is going to be cleared once you turn 65.

Alternatively, all of the big banks offer an interest-free overdraft facility on the student accounts in the hope you will stay loyal to them when you start earning later on.

The amount you get on an overdraft is determined by the lender and can apply to all its student applicants however the usual amount is about 2, 000 which is interest-free.

Even though the overdraft will not run you anything if you stay inside your limit, if you should rise above it, youll always be charged any hefty interest on the difference. You may even be hit with a one-off unauthorised overdraft fee as well.

There is absolutely no specific time period limit for repaying the overdraft. Yet after leaving behind university, the particular interest-free perk will no longer be around and you will be charged at the same excessive rates that connect with overdrafts about standard existing accounts. It is worth noting that some banks give a grace time period after graduation before the higher rate will kick in.

Another option is obviously the conventional charge card. Nevertheless, these rarely hold privileged terms for scholars. Invest the a charge card from the bank you will have to pay a similar high interest levels as everyone else. The only huge difference will be as a student, your borrowing limit will be lower. Most will see, with credit cards, they?ll sit on their maxed out and about balance and pay curiosity for 36 months forgetting what the spent the cash on in the first place.

Although there are lots of money financial products for pupil, seventy per cent of university students continue to finds money an issue and half could have part-time jobs in addition to loans. Most students admit they?ve been worried about debt but believe that it is unavoidable. Know and research your options carefully and avoid getting into any unwanted debt, such as charge cards before you have some kind of income.

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Inquiries for Love Relationships | A Life So Far Away

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Everybody has asked his or her companion or spouse inquiries at one moment or another. All of us clearly would like to understand elements about the ones that we adore. We need to understand their likes, dislikes, and greatest preferences in order to recognize an efficient connect with them. But, what about the deeper, darker things? Have you believed that the answers you receive from precise questions can either be the difference among separation and staying together?

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As human beings, we are composed of a variety of critical details and personality quirks, perfections, and imperfections.

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Next up? Dolphins, Titans

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Peyton Manning is lining up more visits, and the Dolphins will get their wish of at least getting an opportunity to make a sales pitch to the NFL?s most coveted free agent.

Manning will meet with Dolphins head coach Joe Philbin, ESPN?s Chris Mortensen reports. Mort also confirmed that Manning will meet with Titans head coach Mike Munchak.

However, Manning?s meeting with the two coaches will apparently not take place in the teams? facilities, and instead will be one-on-one meetings with the coaches elsewhere. That may suggest that Manning isn?t quite as sold on the Dolphins and Titans as he was on the Broncos and Cardinals, or it may just mean that Manning is getting worn down and wants to keep things low-key.

But in any event, Philbin will now be the man who has to sell Manning on the Dolphins? offense and try to convince him that Miami is the place for him. There?s no question that Philbin?s boss, Stephen Ross, wants to see this deal get done and will spend whatever it takes to get Manning in the fold, but for Manning it will likely be more important to hear Philbin explain why he believes his system is the right fit for Manning.

Complicating matters is that free agency starts in earnest on Tuesday, and that?s when Matt Flynn becomes a free agent. As the Packers? backup while Philbin was the Packers? offensive coordinator, Flynn knows the offense the Dolphins will run and would seem to be a natural target for the Dolphins if they can?t get Manning. But there?s no doubt that Manning is the Dolphins? No. 1 priority, and if Flynn wants to go to Miami, he?s going to have to wait for Manning to have the right of first refusal.

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Locals target endemic birds as pets & Birds detected at BIA raises ...

By Malaka Rodrigo

A bird-import racket was busted by the Customs last week, but another covert and illicit bird trade is being conducted within the country. The operatives catch birds in remote areas, sometimes deep in the jungles, and supply these to pet shops. The law allows only exotic birds to be kept as pets, but these pet shop owners deal in any indigenous birds.

Parrots, munias, the black-headed oriole, grackles and even sparrows are among the birds being traded. The grackle, or Hill Myna, known locally as Salalihiniya, is especially vulnerable. The bird is in big demand because it comes under the business category of ?birds that can talk.?

The racket came to light last year when a Galle resident was caught in the act of delivering grackles caught in the wild to a pet shop in Mount Lavinia. Acting on a tip-off that birds were being transported to Colombo, Madura de Silva and Nadeeka Hapurarachchie of the Wildlife Conservation Society of Galle, accompanied by members of the Flying Squad of the Department of Wildlife Conservation, lay in wait near the Mt. Lavinia pet shop in question.

A three-wheeler drew up in front of the pet shop, and a man stepped out. He was caught in the act of handing over a plastic crate containing grackles to the pet shop owner. The man told the Flying Squad the grackles were caught in the jungles of Gampola. He said he had also supplied other bird species, including the Layard?s Parakeet, a bird endemic to Sri Lanka. It is understood that the illicit bird business has been going on for quite some time. The bird supplier and the pet shop owner were both fined.

Madura de Silva told the Sunday Times that there seems to be a growing demand for endemic local birds. Some of these birds have permanent nesting sites, and repeatedly visit the same tree and tree hole to lay their eggs. This makes them easy prey to bird catchers.

It is quite common for villagers to keep birds, such as the mynah and the rose-ringed parakeet, as pets. Usually, these are birds that have been found abandoned or lost as fledglings, and out of compassion the villagers adopt the birds and take care of them. It is a different situation in the towns and city, where illegal bird trading is a lucrative business.

While these birds may not be threatened species, they could be in danger if they became heavily targeted species, warned Madura de Silva.

All indigenous and migratory birds, except five bird species, are protected under the Fauna and Flora Ordinance of Sri Lanka. The five unprotected species are the Large-billed Crow, the House Crow, the Rose-ringed Parakeet, the Scaly-breasted Munia and the white-backed Munia. The Rose-ringed Parakeet and two species of Munia are often available for sale in pet shops.

It is illegal to keep even unprotected bird species without a licence, says environment lawyer Jagath Gunawardane. He believes there are a few organised groups engaged in the illicit bird trade, but the ?situation is not out of control.? He recommended a proper investigation to review the situation.

Birds Detected at BIA Raises Interpol Concerns

• Exotic species brought into country illegally to be sold at exorbitant amounts
• Questions over co-ordination of various agencies involved in implementing Animal Diseases ActThe recent detection at the BIA of an attempt to smuggle several exotic varieties of birds into the country has triggered interest of the Interpol that is probing whether this was part of a global live animal trafficking trade.

By Chandani Kirinde

Interpol?s Environmental Crime Committee in a letter to the Criminal investigation Department (CID) has requested any intelligence that the CID may have gathered from investigations into the illicit trafficking of birds, the Sunday Times learns.

The recent detection was of a consignment of 121 live birds brought down by a regular importer who had documents to support the import of only ten birds as per the permits issued by the Department of Wild Life Conservation (DWC). These permits are given only after a quarantine report is obtained from the importer as required under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).

The market value of the birds was around Rs. 13.6 million but the declared value was just US $ 1130 (around Rs. 120,000). The man was fined Rs 450,000 and the birds were handed over to the National Zoological Gardens where they will go on display in about a month?s time. The ten birds for which the man had proper documentation were handed over to him.

While most of the birds were varieties of parrots, what was disturbing was that among them were several small exotic varieties of duck and a pair of swans which are high-risk carries of Avian flu (bird flu).

Customs Bio-Diversity unit Director General Samantha Gunasekera who led the detection having kept tabs on the importer for more than a year and having been tipped off by an informant said this was perhaps one of the few cases that was detected while in other instances live animal and bird cargo are smuggled into the country for ornamental purposes to be sold at exorbitant rates.

Another shocking revelation was the amount people are willing to pay to buy different types of macaw and cockatoos to keep as pets. The blue and gold Macaw, indigenous to South America is sold at around Rs.1. 2 million while prices of other exotic birds range between Rs. 100,000 and Rs. One million. (See graphic for prices of imported birds sold in Sri Lanka). ?The bird consignments come from Bangkok but the birds originate from South America, Australia or New Zealand,? Mr.Gunasekera said.

While the Customs Department makes the detections, the quarantine office run by officials of the Department of Animal Production and Health (DAPH) are entrusted with checking live cargo. ?The importer has to inform the Department when the consignment is due and our officials check them when they arrive to give clearance.

If there is some suspicion we keep the animals or birds at a quarantine centre outside the airport and release them later,? a spokesman for the Department Dr. Susil Silva said. However, the Sunday Times learns that the DAPH has come under criticism particularly that the live cargo is not examined properly and that regular importers are allowed to leave with the goods without proper scrutiny.

When questioned Dr.Silva said the Department works with the resources available and that so far the Department has ensured that no diseases are brought into the country. ?We have to implement the Animal Diseases Act and that is what our officials do,? he said.

The Sunday Times found out that with varying government agencies involved in enforcing laws pertaining to this area, there seemed a lack of co-ordination. For example the Department of Wild Life Conservation (DWC) which issues permits and is entrusted with carrying out raids now functions under the Ministry of Agrarian Services and Wild Life whereas it was earlier under the Ministry of Environment which formulates policy on environment related matters. The co-ordination between the DAPH and the Customs too seemed inadequate.

Environment activist and lawyer Jagath Gunawardena said although the Flora and Fauna Ordinance provides adequate laws to deal with the import and export of live and endangered species of both animal and plant what was lacking was its implementation as well as trained officers.

?The law has been amended to meet present day situations but it has to be better implemented and we need more trained personnel so that we can close the loopholes that exist,? he said. Meanwhile, Samantha Gunasekera of the Customs said that other than the import of live animals, the unchecked import of various types of plants and fish too has proved to be hazardous to local bio diversity.

?I warned many years ago that the import of piranhas and knife fish was detrimental to the survival of fish species. Their import was banned much later but now these fish are found in our waterways,? he said.

He added that similarly other types of animal imports could cause much harm. ?The Customs sometime back detected a pair of ferrets that had been imported as pets but these creatures are a highly invasive species and if released into the wild could wreak havoc by killing off many of the smaller animals found here,? he said.

?We need to educate the public as well as have better trained people to ensure that both local bio diversity is protected and there is no trafficking of endangered species,? he added.

Permits before pets

The Department of Animal Production and Health has reiterated that those who want to bring their pets (cats, dogs, birds etc.) into the country need to obtain an import permit from the Department prior to their arrival in Sri Lanka.

An official said despite many public notices to this effect, many airline passengers still continue to bring pets without a valid permit and this has caused inconvenience to the quarantine officers who are forced to send them back to the countries from where they were flown in.

He said, sometimes the pets are not accepted by the respective countries and are sent back to Sri Lanka, causing further inconvenience to officials and the owners.

Published on SundayTimes on 19.02.2012 www.sundaytimes.lk/120219/News/nws_13.html

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