India-Pakistan Border Drama: Seeking Answers

By Sanjay Kumar

Over the last few years Indo-Pakistani ties had been improving greatly. Now, all the goodwill that had been built up over this time appears to have been eliminated by a ?runaway grandma.?

The killing of two Indian soldiers at the Line of Control(LOC)- the line that separates two parts of Kashmir and acts as a de facto border between India and Pakistan- several days ago, has quickly revived animosity between the two nations. The episode actually began last Sunday when Pakistan said Indian troops had killed one of its troops and critically injured another in a ?cross-border raid? that Delhi denied having made. Then, on Tuesday, New Delhi blamed Pakistani border guards for the brutal deaths of two Indian soldiers- one of whom had been beheaded-an allegation that Islamabad vehemently denied. This was followed two days later by the death of another Pakistani solider, which Islamabad says had not been provoked but India maintains happened when its troops returned fire after having been shot at.

Amidst this blame game the truth is lost, with the fog of war making it all but impossible to ascertain which side is at fault. This doesn?t make passion on both sides any less intense as evidenced by many Indian news outlets challenging the very raison d?etre of holding peace talks with Pakistan.

A notable exception is The Hindu which, after carefully constructing the events leading up to this week, is actually blaming Delhi for violating the ceasefire agreement at the LoC. A front page article the paper ran late this week reconstructs the events leading up to the deaths through accounts given to it by unnamed army officials. It writes that in early September a 70-year old Indian woman crossed over the border to spend her final days with her children, who had crossed the borders years earlier to escape prosecution for border smuggling. This woman?s border crossing brought vulnerabilities in the LoC to the attention of Indian troops, who began constructing border outposts in violation of the 2003 LoC ceasefire agreement as a means of addressing these vulnerabilities.

Not surprisingly, Pakistani troops protested the violation of the ceasefire and demanded that construction of the border posts cease immediately. Those calls went unheeded. As a result, in October Pakistani troops began firing on the new outposts with mortar fire and automatic weapons, missing all Indian troops but killing three nearby villagers, the oldest of whom was 25-years-old while the youngest was in ninth grade, according to The Hindu.

Things remained tense after that with the two sides occasionally exchanging fire. After one such exchange on January 6 an Indian commander, Gulab Singh Rawat, sought and obtained permission to take aggressive action against Pakistan troops that were targeting the soldiers under his command. The result was Tuesday?s killing of a Pakistani border guard, with another one being critically injured.

Pakistan has proposed establishing a UN-monitored probe to investigate the incident. India has refused. Meanwhile, Thursday?s brutal killing of two Indian soldiers has provoked outrage throughout most the country.

There is some reason for optimism, however. Notably, even while giving the Pakistani envoy in the country a ?dressing down,? members of the government have sought to calm passions at home, with External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid arguing, ?We cannot and must not allow escalation of this very unwholesome event that has taken place.?

His Pakistani counterpart Hina Rabbani Khan welcomed the statement.

This makes the media?s role in whipping up public angry all the more condemnable. These actions only impede a return to normalcy which is in every person in India and Pakistan?s interest. This is especially true of India given that the stability of South Asia and how well it manages its neighborhood will go a long way towards determining its standing in the world.

In many ways, people?s anger over these tragic deaths is understandable. The media has a responsibility to help rein in this anger lest it lead to further escalation and more tragedies. In this role it is failing miserably and it is time for it to reserve course.

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Politicians slam "extremely generous" wind power cable scheme

LONDON (Reuters) - A new system devised to attract investors to spending money on connecting Britain's offshore wind farms is too generous and does not offer a good deal for consumers, a parliamentary committee said on Monday.

The government wants a huge fleet of offshore wind farms to produce between 8 percent and 15 percent of Britain's electricity by 2020 to reduce carbon emissions.

All wind farms built at sea need to be connected to the onshore grid by expensive subsea cables.

To ensure that the transmission cables are built, energy regulator Ofgem and the government's Department of Energy and Climate Change have put in place a licence tender system whereby investors receive returns of 10-11 percent.

The Committee of Public Accounts, however, was critical of the system and described it as "extremely generous".

"Not only is it unlikely that this new licensing system for bringing electricity from offshore wind farms onto the national grid will deliver any savings for consumers, it could well lead to higher prices," committee chairwoman Margaret Hodge said.

Licencees will receive a total of about 17 billion pounds through the system, a cost that will eventually be passed on to consumers through electricity bills.

The committee interviewed representatives from the government, the regulator and the electricity industry to assess the new regime.

"We have not seen convincing evidence to show that there will be savings for consumers from this scheme compared with potential alternatives," the committee said.

The politicians recommended that the regulator should consider imposing a system linked to retail prices and to request that investors disclose actual returns they make from operating the cables.

The committee said that the government and regulator should also analyse whether 20 years of guaranteed income is beneficial or whether shorter licence periods are necessary.

It was also concerned about competition in the offshore wind transmission market because four out of six licences that have already been issued were won by one company, Transmission Capital Partners.

"The department and the authority (regulator) must also ensure that the offshore electricity transmission market remains competitive and does not become an oligopoly," the committee said.

(Reporting by Karolin Schaps; Editing by David Goodman)

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NY Times writer gets his 15 minutes after Lindsay Lohan article...

Behind the Cover Story: Stephen Rodrick on Getting Access to Lindsay Lohan

Stephen Rodrick, a contributing writer for the magazine, wrote this week?s cover article about the making of the movie ?The Canyons,? which was directed by Paul Schrader and includes Lindsay Lohan. Rodrick last wrote for the magazine about Martin Peretz, the long-time owner of The New Republic.

What surprised you the first time you met Lindsay Lohan?

The first time I met her was at a table read that she was already late for. Everyone else had long been in their seats. Paul Schrader had just given a lecture about how Lindsay thrived on chaos and, on cue, she walked into the room, hair tossed, smelling of smoke and bangles on her arm banging up and down. I scrawled ?fragile? and ?tornado? into my notebook. That sounds a bit melodramatic, so I didn?t put those words in the story, but she can be melodrama personified.

By the end of the time you spent with Lohan, had your impression of her changed?

There?s a scene in the story where she has to weep on camera, and she retreats to her room. And you could just hear wailing, and I describe her crying as sounding like a child lost in the woods with no chance of rescue. And that?s what I believe. She entered Hollywood as a child star with two massively dysfunctional parents who have filled their own Dr. Phil hours. She didn?t have a chance. For every Jodie Foster, there are five Lindsay Lohans.

But here?s the thing, there?s talent in there. She has that undefinable ?it? quality. You can see it at certain moments in the film. The frustrating/tragic thing, and Lindsay would be the first to admit it, is getting that talent out of her over the past few years has been nearly impossible. That?s why I called the piece ?The Misfits,? after Marilyn Monroe?s last film, one that Schrader and the crew were constantly talking about on set. You can?t argue that Lindsay has the talent or resume of Monroe, but there is that same feeling of talent slipping away, perhaps permanently.

What was the cast and crew?s reaction to Lohan?

It varied, but you could say it started it with awe, slid to amusement and ended with annoyance. You have to remember this was a grueling 21-day shoot, and everyone was working 12-hour days, many of them for $100 a day. If you have a star that is chronically late or constantly involved in some kind of drama, it wears on your nerves. There was a moment when Schrader and James Deen (Lohan?s co-star) argued about a scene in Malibu ? a very rare occurrence? ? and Lohan chided Deen for disrespecting his director. There was much audible sighing and smacking of foreheads from the crew.

These people all seem to share one problem: debt. Is there any way that ?selling out? or ?cashing in,? neither of which are phrases with positive artistic connotations, will create a good movie?

Well, I think there?s a big difference between doing a movie ?on the cheap? and selling out. And none of the players are actually broke; they just don?t have the cash to self-finance a $250,000 film, much less a $5 million film. While there was some element of ?maybe we could make a killing,? I think ?The Canyons? was more driven by a desire to actually make something and not wait three years for overseas funding or for a project to wind its way out of turnaround. There was a lot of ?how can we make this look like $5 million film?? and not much of ?how can we make this as commercial as possible?? If that were their goal, there probably would have been less full frontal.

How did you get access to the set like that? Usually, these things are micro-managed by publicists and handlers.

I?d met Schrader a few years back when he was trying to do a Bollywood movie. He was incredibly open about the process at a lunch we had in Manhattan. That project ended up not happening, but I kept tabs on him, and when I saw the first news about ?The Canyons,? I e-mailed him and said that if I was going to do the piece, I?d need nearly complete access. He said, ?Let me think about it.? An hour later, he said, ?Let?s do it.? Lindsay?s people balked, but Paul, to his everlasting credit, said, ?That?s fine, but I?ll have to replace her.? Her people backed down.

Paul Schrader seems like a tough boss. Was he hard on everyone?

Yes and no. Here was a man with a legendary IMDB entry and he?s trying to make a film for $250,000 ? a k a $8.75 million less than his previously smallest-budget film. The crew was pretty green and that wore on him after a while, in conjunction with Lohan?s creative misbehaving. I think it was a careful-what-you-wish-for experience: He had total control and there were no studio execs breathing down his neck. But in exchange he had to do a lot of little things he wasn?t used to doing, whether it was resetting a boom mic for a shot or trying to find one of the interns to retrieve his reading glasses from his hotel in the middle of a busy shooting day. (The poor kid made three trips before bringing the right ones.) Plus, he?s 66; men get crankier as they get older. I can speak from personal experience on that one.

Were there some scenes in the story that were left on the cutting room floor?

Oh, man, there are enough B-sides and extras to make the magazine equivalent of Oasis?s ?The Masterplan.? I joked with Sheila Glaser, my editor, that we were cutting stuff that would be the lead in most Hollywood stories. At the wrap party, I tried to talk Lindsay into posing for some photos with Deen for the story. She said she would if I could get him to apologize for ?disrespecting? her during filming. She wanted Deen to get on a table and shout a mea culpa. Deen just laughed and said, ?That is so not happening.? It was a lot like high school. Then there was the time Lindsay picked up the hot end of a curling iron and was treated with some frozen peas out of the producer?s freezer. So many memories.

In the end, what did you think of the film? You?ve seen it a couple of times.

I like it, but that may be a little Stockholm Syndrome kicking in. Whenever I do one of these stories, I always root for the project. So if you?re there day-in, day-out, you lose critical perspective. But as I said in the story, the film?s weakest 10 minutes is the film?s first 10 minutes, and that ain?t good. Braxton Pope, the producer, and Bret Easton Ellis, the screenwriter, wanted to reshoot the opening scene, but Schrader wouldn?t hear of it. He had his reasons, namely wrangling Lohan for another day of shooting would be like trying to catch water in a net. But after a slow start, the film kicks into gear.

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Building electronics from the ground up

Jan. 14, 2013 ? There's hardly a moment in modern life that doesn't involve electronic devices, whether they're guiding you to a destination by GPS or deciding which incoming messages merit a beep, ring or vibration. But our expectation that the next shopping season will inevitably offer an upgrade to more-powerful gadgets largely depends on size -- namely, the ability of the industry to shrink transistors so that more can fit on ever-tinier chip surfaces.

Engineers have been up to the task of electronics miniaturization for decades now, and the principle that the computer industry will be able to do it on a regular schedule -- as codified in Moore's Law -- won't come into doubt any time soon, thanks to researchers like the University of South Carolina's Chuanbing Tang.

Tang is a leader in constructing miniscule structures from the bottom up, rather than the top down. Currently, modern electronics are primarily fabricated by the latter method: the smooth surface of a starting material -- say, a wafer of silicon -- is etched through micro- or nanolithography to establish a pattern on it. The top-down method might involve a prefabricated template, such as a photomask, to establish the pattern. But the approach is becoming more and more challenging, because reducing the size of the features on the requisite templates is getting extremely expensive as engineers work their way further down the nanoscale. "Going from 500 to sub-30 nanometers is cost prohibitive for large-scale production," said Tang, an assistant professor in the department of chemistry and biochemistry in USC's College of Arts and Sciences.

As a chemist, Tang uses a bottom-up approach: he works with the individual molecules that go onto a surface, coaxing them to self-arrange into the patterns needed. One established method of doing this involves block copolymers, in which a polymer chain is made up of two or more sections of different polymerized monomers.

If the different block sections are properly designed, the blocks will self-aggregate when placed on a surface, and the aggregation can be harnessed to create desirable patterns on the nanoscale without the need for any templates. Di-block copolymers of poly(ethylene oxide) and polystyrene, for example, have been used to construct highly ordered arrays of perpendicular cylinders of nanoscale materials. Solvent evaporation, or annealing, of these polymers on surfaces exerts an external directional field that can enhance the patterning process and create nearly defect-free arrays.

Tang's laboratory just published a paper for the special "Emerging Investigators 2013" issue of the journal Chemical Communications that takes this method to a new level. Working together with graduate student Christopher Hardy, Tang led a team that fabricated nanoparticles of pure, crystalline iron oxide with controlled size and spacing on silicon wafers by covalently incorporating a ferrocene moiety into a tri-block copolymer.

Incorporating metals into nanoscale designs is crucial for fabricating electronic devices, and Tang's method is a step forward for the field. Because ferrocene is covalently bonded to the block copolymer, there is no need for a complexation step to add a metal-containing compound to the surface -- a burdensome requirement of most previous methods. Moreover, their technique is a step beyond related polymer systems that contain covalent ferrocenylsilane linkages, in which removal of the organic components leaves behind silicon oxide as an impurity in the metal oxide.

The technique is a promising addition to the available tools for addressing the chronic need to decrease the size of electronic components. "The industry won't replace top-down methods," Tang said, "but they plan to use bottom-up together with the existing top-down methods soon."

There's versatility in the technique as well. "Here we use a ferrocene-containing polymer, which we convert into the inorganic iron oxide. But if we replace the ferrocene in the polymer with carbon precursor, we could make a perpendicular carbon nanorod, which would have a lot of potential uses," Tang said. "Or we can incorporate a semi-conducting polymer, like polythiophene, which would be very useful in solar cell applications."

The work was supported by Semiconductor Research Corporation (Task ID 2222.001) and National Science Foundation (CHE-1151479).

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India police arrest six in new gang rape case

NEW DELHI? - Indian police arrested six people including a bus driver after a woman said she was gang raped in the northern state of Punjab, newspapers said on Sunday.

The reports come weeks after a student in Delhi was assaulted and beaten in a moving bus and thrown bleeding onto the street in a case that sparked outrage in the country.

In the latest assault, the woman was travelling by bus to her village on Friday night when the driver and his assistant drove her to a deserted location, the Indian Express newspaper said.

Five more people joined them later and assaulted the woman in a house, the paper quoted senior police superintendent Raj Jeet Singh as saying.

The men dropped the woman the next morning near her village. She went home before going to a police station to file a complaint. Six of the seven men accused of the crime have been arrested, the police officer told the paper.

A Punjab police spokesman could not be reached for comment.

After the physiotherapy student was raped and beaten in Delhi, millions of Indians took to the streets demanding the death penalty for her attackers and official action to reduce the number of assaults on women.

The student died in a Singapore hospital from internal injuries, two week after she was attacked. Five men have been charged with her rape and murder.

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California Energy Commission accepting new applications for hydrogen fuel stations

California Energy Commission continues to work on bolstering state hydrogen fuel infrastructure

California has been a bastion of alternative energy for several years. The state has thrown a significant amount of support behind solar energy and wind power. In recent years, however, the state has become more interested in clean transportation. Much of this interest is being influenced by the auto industry, which has been advocating and promoting hydrogen transportation aggressively over the past year. Because California is one of the most lucrative markets for the auto industry, automakers have been pushing for the development of a hydrogen fuel infrastructure, an initiative that has received strong support from the California Energy Commission.

Agency begins to overcome internal problems

Last year, California embarked on an ambitious campaign to expand its existing hydrogen fuel infrastructure. The California Energy Commission, which oversees this endeavor, helped support the development and building of new hydrogen fuel stations. These stations are meant to provided the necessary support that hydrogen-powered vehicles will need in order to be considered successful. In recent months, however, support for the hydrogen fuel infrastructure has diminished.

Agency accepting 25 new applications

The California Energy Commission has announced that it is accepting new applications for 25 hydrogen fuel stations that will be located throughout the state. The agency had put a hold on its various projects due to financial constraints. Spurred by some structural changes, the agency is now looking to pick up where it left off with the state?s hydrogen fuel infrastructure. The companies that are chosen by the agency will be reimbursed for up to 65% of the building costs of their hydrogen fuel stations. There is a catch, however, as no less than 33% of the hydrogen associated with these stations must be produced through renewable sources.

California hydrogen fuel infrastructure still lacking

Hydrogen transportation may be able to gain more traction in California as the grants from the California Energy Commission resume. These grants will be governed by new rules that have been adopted by the agency in order to avoid exploitation and accusations of favoritism. There are still concerns, however, that the endeavor from the California Energy Commission will fail, as the state has limited time to establish a comprehensive hydrogen fuel infrastructure before the commercial launch of hydrogen-powered vehicles in early 2014.

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Victims of Costa shipwreck mark anniversary

GIGLIO, Italy (AP) ? Survivors of the Costa Concordia shipwreck and relatives of the 32 people who died marked the first anniversary of the grounding Sunday with the unveiling of memorials to the victims, a Mass in their honor and a minute of silence to recall the exact moment that the cruise ship rammed into a reef off Tuscany.

The first event of Sunday's daylong commemoration was the return to the sea of part of the massive rock that tore a 70-meter (230-foot) gash into the hull of the ocean liner on Jan. 13, 2012. The boulder remained embedded in the mangled steel as the 112,000-ton vessel capsized along with its 4,200 passengers and crew.

As fog horns wailed, a crane on a tug lowered the boulder onto the reef off Giglio, returning it to the seabed affixed with a memorial plaque. Relatives of the dead threw flowers into the sea and embraced as they watched the ceremony from a special ferry that bobbed in the waves under a slate gray sky.

A land-based memorial was being unveiled after a Mass and ceremony honoring rescue crews. A minute of silence was scheduled for 9:45 p.m., the exact moment when the Concordia slammed into the reef after the captain took the ship off course in a stunt to bring it closer to Giglio.

The captain, Francesco Schettino, is accused of multiple manslaughter, causing a shipwreck and leaving the ship before all passengers were evacuated. He hasn't been charged but is living under court-ordered restrictions pending a decision on whether to indict him. Schettino maintains he saved lives by bringing the ship closer to shore rather than letting it sink in the open sea, and claims the reef he hit wasn't on his nautical charts.

In an interview broadcast Sunday with RAI state television, Schettino again defended his actions and said he wanted to "share in the pain of all the victims and the families of the victims."

Taking part in the anniversary commemoration was Capt. Gregorio De Falco of the Italian coast guard, who became something of a hero to survivors after his recorded conversations with Schettino during the evacuation were made public. In them, De Falco excoriated Schettino for having abandoned the ship before all passengers were off and ordered him to return, shouting the now-infamous order "Go on board (expletive)!"

De Falco said he wanted to go to Giglio to "embrace the victims, and the relatives of the victims." De Falco, who has shied from all media attention since the disaster, said he did so out of respect for the victims.

"I'm not a hero," he told reporters in Giglio on Sunday. "I just did my job."

Also on hand was Kevin Rebello, brother of Costa waiter Russel Rebello, one of the two victims whose bodies were never recovered. Kevin Rebello spent weeks on Giglio in the aftermath of the disaster awaiting word of the fate of his brother and said he couldn't sleep ahead of Sunday's anniversary.

"I have been constantly thinking it is going to be again the same agony, even tonight, because it is going to be the same exact moment when all this happened," he told Associated Press on Sunday. "So my heart is beating a bit faster I guess."

The Concordia remains on its side, grounded off Giglio's port. Officials now say it will take until possibly September to prepare the ship to be rolled upright and towed from the rocks to a port to be dismantled. The cost has also swelled to ?400 million ($530 million).

While Sunday's commemoration was focused on the relatives of those who died, Giglio's residents were also being remembered for having opened their doors to the survivors who came ashore that night, cold, wet and traumatized after a chaotic evacuation.

"It was something that was too big for us," said Giglio resident Silvana Anichini. "We are just not used to things like this, and then it turned out to be one of the biggest shipwrecks in the world."

Italian President Giorgio Napolitano sent a message of thanks to the island, praising its people for their "high sense of civic duty and humanity."

Many survivors have stayed in touch with their Giglio hosts, connected in ways they didn't ever expect. Claudia Urru, who stayed home in Sardinia on the anniversary, says she speaks monthly with the Giglio family that took her family and the two other families she was traveling with into their home that night, giving them warm clothes and food.

For Christmas, her Giglio family sent a package of local sweets, and they have discussed having a reunion in Sardinia.

"This is the only thing good that has come of it," Urru said by phone last week.

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Winfield reported from Rome.

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Mixed reviews for Middleton's first official portrait

Duchess of Cambridge Kate Middleton and Prince William visited the National Portrait Gallery in London today for the unveiling of her first official portrait.

Award-winning artist Paul Emsley painted Middleton against his trademark black background with a slight smile, framed by her long locks.

Emsley said he wanted to capture Middleton's natural beauty. Emsley said he was originally going to paint the mother-to-be without a smile, but changed his mind shortly after meeting her.

"I think it was the right choice in the end to have her smiling. That's really who she is, I think," said Emsley, who was born in Scotland and grew up in South Africa.

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Emsley also took liberties with Middleton's eye color, changing it slightly to match the blouse she is wearing in the painting.

While the painting reveals a more mature Middleton, art critics are slamming Emsley's work, saying it looks nothing like her.

"Seriously, as a concept, what is it? It's like a giant Polaroid. Like she went into a photo booth and had that picture taken and blown up to a huge size it would look more or less the same, wouldn't it," Waldemar Januszczak, art critic for The Sunday Times, said.

Middleton, 31, sat twice for the portrait - once in May and again in June. She reportedly described the work as "amazing," adding, "I thought it was brilliant."

William said, "It's absolutely beautiful."

It was a rare appearance for the Duchess of Cambridge, who was released from the hospital in December, as she battles severe morning sickness known as hyperemesis gravidarum.

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Lenovo IdeaTab A2107 comes to AT&T for $200 with no contract

NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) - ABC entertainment president Paul Lee summed up his fall season by saying his network has "a lot to shout about, and we also have a lot to do." Lee's network finished the fall in fourth place in the key 18-49 demographic and third place in total viewers. He lamented the fall's lack of any "big breakout hits on broadcast on any of the networks and on ABC in particular." NBC, which passed ABC and its other rivals to become fall's top-rated network in 18-49, might dispute that: It has touted the new drama "Revolution" as a hit. ...

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Own Publishing Has Come A Long Way ? Writing and Speaking

The increase of self publishing has gained momentum in recent years and isn?t really presenting indications of reducing anytime quickly.

Digital Book World mentions that in 2012 self-publishing has taken $ 100 thousand out of the UNITED STATE profession incomes in 2011. Even though the revenues guide business made were close to $ 14 billion, that is still a large piece and it is anticipated to enhance annually.

Nevertheless you choose to look at it, self publishing has actually had a significant influence on the publishing world in 2012. There are a number of stories concerning major publishers acquiring the civil liberties to a book that was initially self published.

A major ripple in the publishing neighborhood norm came when Simon & Schuster obtained the rights to publish the print edition of Hugh Howey?s book Wool. After already offering over 300,000 ebooks, this deal will no question assistance Howey in to the mainstream.

Numerous of the authors in the top-selling group for 2012 on websites like Amazon and iTunes have begun as self published authors. And lately there has been another major turning point in the means self published authors are seen.

In a very first ever occasion a self published book has actually made it to the New York Moments listing of the top-ten publications of 2012. Reviewer Michiko Kakutani, valued in the business as one of the toughest book critics, decided on The Revolution Was Telecasted: The Cops, Crooks, Slingers and Slayers That Transformed TELEVISION Dramatization Forever by Alan Sepinwall for her top-ten list and unlike the additional titles in the checklist it didn?t have actually a publisher named.

Self publishing has its origins in the aged ?Vanity Publishing? of the past, which was where an author can go to get their book released if they had actually been refused by the larger publishing houses.

Vanity Publishing constantly held with it the marketing of being made use of by talentless individuals who saw themselves as authors, which is just how it got it?s label. Without fuss they published and released the manuscript ?as is? when you delivered it to them, ran off a thousand approximately copies and dumped them in your lap, or garage area or cellar, you get the picture.

Self publishing today has taken on a whole various worth and direction of its very own and individuals who have real skill are no longer shed in the shuffle of the publishing houses and they aren?t required to spend cash they don?t have and might never have the ability to recover, so they can easily provide their imagination with the rest of us.

Self publishing is a popular form of book publishing but you have to know the proper way of self book publishing.

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Ford doubles dividend to seven-year high

(Reuters) - Ford Motor Co doubled its quarterly dividend to 10 cents per share, its highest in seven years, on the back of strong sales in North America and a healthy balance sheet.

The first-quarter payout, which will cost No. 2 U.S. automaker about $370 million, comes despite recent market share losses and weakness in its European business.

"Ford's plan is to grow its dividend, consistent with earnings and liquidity growth, to a level that is sustainable through all business cycles," the company said in a statement.

Ford last paid a 10-cent dividend in May 2006. Shortly after that, the company reduced and later suspended its dividend as it struggled to avoid bankruptcy. It restored dividends in December 2011.

"We had thought that a dividend increase was likely but this announcement is larger than we expected," RBC Capital Markets analyst Joseph Spak said.

"Today's announcement shows strong confidence in their outlook, balance sheet and liquidity."

Ford shares jumped 3 percent in premarket trade to $13.88.

The company said it increased its liquidity position by $2 billion through the first three quarters of 2012.

Earlier this month, Ford said its U.S. sales crossed 2 million cars in 2012 and reported its strongest December sales since 2006. It beat Wall Street profit forecast when it last reported results in October.

The automaker, however, has acknowledged losing market share as it struggles to keep up with consumer demand. Losses from Europe are expected to be at least $3 billion over the next two years, and the company has announced plant closures and job cuts to save costs.

Ford's market share fell to 15.5 percent in 2012 from 16.8 percent in 2011.

The dividend is payable on March 1 to shareholders of record on January 30.

(Reporting by A. Ananthalakshmi in Bangalore; Editing by Sreejiraj Eluvangal and Saumyadeb Chakrabarty)

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Medical Marijuana Patient Group Gets D.C. Department of Health ...

Americans for Safe Access will hold its first compulsory training course on February 1st

Washington, DC--(ENEWSPF)--January 10, 2013. The country?s leading medical marijuana advocacy group Americans for Safe Access (ASA) was awarded a permit by the D.C. Department of Health last week to implement its compulsory training for cultivators and distributors licensed by the District. ASA Foundation was selected to be the Medical Marijuana Certification Provider based on its longstanding experience providing such trainings across the country. The 4-hour long training course, a requirement under the District's Legalization of Marijuana for Medical Treatment Amendment Act of 2010, will cover the basics of medical marijuana, including an overview of its clinical applications, safety and operational protocols, as well as participants? rights and responsibilities under local and federal laws.

?We are excited to bring to the nation?s capitol a training program we?ve worked hard to develop over the past ten years,? said ASA Executive Director Steph Sherer. ?Our Patients First Training (PFT) program not only covers the basics of medical cannabis laws, it also prepares the staff of these facilities to work with patient populations.? The PFT program is also offered on a volunteer basis for medical marijuana providers nationally.

In particular, the PFT will educate participants on the requirements of District law, and will also educate participants on federal law and strategies for asserting their Constitutional rights in the event of federal law enforcement encounters. PFT participants will learn ?good neighbor? practices in order to prevent any adverse impacts to the communities surrounding District dispensaries and cultivation centers.

Participants will receive training on the varied uses for cannabis, emerging clinical data, and potential side effects, and will be able to discuss this information in a peer-support capacity with other dispensary staff. PFT participants will learn skills for working with seriously ill patients and be able to apply those skills in the day-to-day operation of District dispensaries. ?By training dispensary staff in effective customer service and cultural sensitivity, patients will be more assured of getting the service they need and deserve,? said Sherer. PFT participants will also learn how to care for the safety of patients by being able to easily spot contaminants on the medicine and by generally maintaining sanitary conditions while growing, packaging and distributing it.

Washington, D.C. is not the only place developing a medical marijuana production and distribution program. In the last two years alone, five states -- Arizona, Connecticut, Delaware, Massachusetts, and New Jersey -- have passed laws that anticipate such programs. In order to assist in the effective implementation of those and other laws, ASA has developed a 3-part program to address product and distribution safety in the medical marijuana industry. With its Patients First Program, ASA Foundation is focusing on a) developing and adopting industry standards for the benefit of legislators and regulators, b) training industry staff, and c) implementing an independent certification program for laboratories, cultivators, distributors, and product manufacturers.

Further information:
ASA's Patients First Program: http://AmericansForSafeAccess.org/PatientsFirstProgram
Details on February 1st training program: http://AmericansForSafeAccess.org/dc-certification

Source: ?http://americansforsafeaccess.org

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Los Angeles Clippers squeak past Dallas Mavericks 99-93, more NBA scores

LOS ANGELES (AP) ? Chris Paul had 19 points and 16 assists, and the Los Angeles Clippers held on to beat the Dallas Mavericks 99-93 on Wednesday night, extending their franchise-record home winning streak to 13 games.

Matt Barnes added 19 points off the bench, and Blake Griffin had 15 points and 13 rebounds for the Clippers (29-8), who took sole possession of the NBA's best record from Oklahoma City with their third straight win overall.

Darren Collison scored 22 points for Dallas. O.J. Mayo added 17 and Dirk Nowitzki had 15. At 13-23, the Mavs fell 10 games below .500 for the first time since March 30, 2000, two months after Mark Cuban bought the team. They've lost four in a row overall and three straight on the road, where they are 5-16.

THUNDER 106, TIMBERWOLVES 84

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) ? Kevin Durant scored 26 points and Russell Westbrook added 23 to help Oklahoma City overpower outmanned Minnesota.

After losing its last game on a buzzer-beater against a last-place Washington team saddled by injuries to its three top players, Oklahoma City left nothing to chance with the Timberwolves missing All-Star forward Kevin Love and four others.

The Thunder stretched the lead to 24 before pulling the starters with 5:44 to go.

Alexey Shved scored 18 points for Minnesota, which announced earlier in the day that Love would miss eight to 10 weeks after breaking his right hand for the second time.

SPURS 108, LAKERS 105

SAN ANTONIO (AP) ? Tony Parker scored 24 points to help San Antonio hand slumping Los Angeles to its fifth straight loss.

Manu Ginobili added 19 points and Tiago Splitter and Stephen Jackson had 14 each for San Antonio, which has won 11 straight at home.

Kobe Bryant had 27 points, Metta World Peace added 23 and Earl Clark 22 for Los Angeles. Bryant was 10 for 24 from the field, missing a 3-pointer on his final attempt that would have tied the game. Clark missed a follow-up 3 off a long rebound.

Coming off a 125-112 loss at Houston on Tuesday, the Lakers fought until the final buzzer.

CELTICS 87, SUNS 79

BOSTON (AP) ? Jeff Green scored 14 points, rookie Jared Sullinger added 12 points and 16 rebounds, and Boston recovered from a dreadful third quarter, rallying in the fourth to beat Phoenix.

The Celtics survived a scoring drought that spanned almost half of the third quarter, scoring just 14 in the period before regaining the lead and taking command against the road-weary Suns, who fell to 2-16 away from home with their 11th straight road loss.

Jason Terry added 13 points as Boston's reserves outscored Phoenix's 47-16. Kevin Garnett was the only Boston starter to score in double figures, finishing with 10 points and five rebounds.

Jared Dudley scored 14 points and Marcin Gortat had 12 points and 14 rebounds for the Suns.

BUCKS 104, BULLS 96

CHICAGO (AP) ? Brandon Jennings scored 20 of his 35 points in the third quarter and Milwaukee beat Chicago for its second consecutive victory under interim coach Jim Boylan.

Mike Dunleavy had 16 points and Monta Ellis finished with 14 for Milwaukee, which made 10 of 22 3-point attempts. Larry Sanders grabbed 12 rebounds and blocked seven shots.

Carlos Boozer had 22 points and 11 rebounds for the Bulls, who have dropped their last two games against Milwaukee at the United Center. The Bulls blew a 27-point lead in the third quarter as Milwaukee snapped a nine-game losing streak against Chicago with a 93-92 victory on Nov. 26.

Boozer has recorded a double-double in six consecutive games.

HORNETS 88, ROCKETS 79

NEW ORLEANS (AP) ? Roger Mason scored 15 of his 17 points in the fourth quarter to rally New Orleans to a victory over Houston.

Greivis Vasquez and Jason Smith each scored 17 points for the Hornets, who have won three in a row for the first time this season. Robin Lopez added 14 points for New Orleans.

James Harden scored 25 points for the Rockets, who had won 10 of 12. Harden, who was held to three points in the final quarter when the Rockets were outscored 28-10, was the only Houston player in double figures.

Eric Gordon struggled with five points on 2-of-12 shooting for the Hornets.

GRIZZLIES 94, WARRIORS 87

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) ? Zach Randolph had 19 points and 12 rebounds, Rudy Gay scored 18 points and Memphis completed a 3-0 road trip with a victory over Golden State.

Mike Conley added 16 points and Marc Gasol finished with 12 points and nine rebounds to help Memphis make its quick West Coast swing more memorable. The Grizzlies (23-10) also won at Phoenix on Sunday and at Sacramento on Monday.

Stephen Curry scored 24 points and Klay Thompson had 20 points, seven rebounds and seven assists as the Warriors (22-12) lost back-to-back games for only the second time this season.

The Warriors were coming off their most lopsided loss of the season, 115-89 to the Clippers.

NUGGETS 108, MAGIC 105

DENVER (AP) ? Kenneth Faried scored 19 points and grabbed 19 rebounds to help Denver rally for a win over slumping Orlando.

Ty Lawson also finished with 19 points, including a three-point play with 1:27 remaining that gave the Nuggets the lead for good and sent them to their third straight win.

Orlando just can't get on track since Glen Davis went out with a sprained left shoulder, dropping a 10th straight game in the big man's absence. He currently isn't with the team but it was hoped he might rejoin them at some point during the current four-game trip.

Jameer Nelson led the Magic with 20 points and Arron Afflalo added 12 against his former team.

JAZZ 112, BOBCATS 102

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) ? Al Jefferson had 26 points and eight rebounds to lead Utah to its fourth win in five games with a victory over Charlotte.

The Bobcats had no answer for the 6-foot-10 Jefferson, who went 11 of 15 from the field.

Paul Millsap chipped in with 19 points and Gordon Hayward was 4 of 5 from 3-point range for 14 points as the Jazz made light work of the Bobcats' zone defense, shooting 54 percent from the field.

Ben Gordon led six Bobcats in double figures, scoring 20 points. Michael Kidd-Gilchrist had 15 points and eight rebounds, while Gerald Henderson, Ramon Sessions and Kemba Walker each had 14 points for Charlotte.

RAPTORS 90, 76ERS 72

TORONTO (AP) ? Amir Johnson had 19 points and 12 rebounds, Jose Calderon added 14 points and 11 assists, and Toronto beat Philadelphia, sending the slumping 76ers to their fifth straight loss.

Landry Fields set season highs with 10 points and 11 rebounds. DeMar DeRozan scored 19 and Ed Davis had 17 for the Raptors, who had lost six of their previous seven meetings with Philadelphia, including three straight.

Jrue Holiday and Thaddeus Young each scored 16 points, and Evan Turner had 10 as the Sixers lost for the 13th time in their last 16 games. Philadelphia has played 12 of its past 16 on the road, winning just twice.

CAVALIERS 99, HAWKS 83

CLEVELAND (AP) ? Kyrie Irving scored 18 of his 33 points in the third quarter to lead injury-riddled Cleveland over Atlanta.

Irving's big night came at a perfect time for Cleveland, which had lost five of six overall and six straight at home. The margin of victory was Cleveland's biggest of the season.

Josh Smith scored 17 points to lead Atlanta, which has lost a season-worst four straight.

Alonzo Gee scored 15 points for Cleveland, while Tristan Thompson added 11 points and 14 rebounds. Rookie Tyler Zeller scored 11 points and had a career-high 12 rebounds.

Jeff Teague added 15 points and Al Horford scored 14 for Atlanta.

Source: http://www.oregonlive.com/nba/index.ssf/2013/01/los_angeles_clippers_squeak_pa.html

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Alcoa earnings as expected, revenue tops forecasts

In this Saturday, April 9, 2011, photo, the Alcoa headquarters building stands in downtown Pittsburgh. Alcoa Inc. says fourth-quarter earnings in 2012 met Wall Street's expectations, and it sees slightly higher demand for aluminum this year. The company said Tuesday that net (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

In this Saturday, April 9, 2011, photo, the Alcoa headquarters building stands in downtown Pittsburgh. Alcoa Inc. says fourth-quarter earnings in 2012 met Wall Street's expectations, and it sees slightly higher demand for aluminum this year. The company said Tuesday that net (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

NEW YORK (AP) ? Alcoa Inc. on Tuesday reported fourth-quarter earnings that met Wall Street's expectations, and the company said it expects slightly higher demand for aluminum this year.

The sluggish global economy has weakened prices for aluminum used in everything from airplanes to soda cans.

But Alcoa forecast demand growing 7 percent in 2013, up from a 6 percent gain in 2012. It sees the best prospects in aerospace but slower improvement in demand for autos, packaging, and building and construction materials.

Separately, the company announced that Chief Financial Officer Charles D. McLane Jr., 59, will retire and be replaced by William F. Oplinger, the chief operating officer of Alcoa's primary-products business unit. The change will happen April 1.

Oplinger, 45, joined Alcoa in 2000 and has held several finance and planning jobs. He is on the executive council, which plots company strategy.

In the fourth quarter, Alcoa's net income was $242 million, or 21 cents per share. That includes one-time gains like income from selling a hydroelectric project on the Tennessee-North Carolina border.

Without those gains, the company would have made 6 cents per share ? exactly what analysts expected, according to FactSet ? on revenue of $5.90 billion. Sales were higher than the $5.58 billion that analysts predicted.

A year ago, the company posted a fourth-quarter loss of $191 million, or 18 cents per share, on revenue of $5.99 billion, and a loss after special items of 3 cents per share.

The company said it hit record profits in its aluminum-rolling and product-making businesses while cutting costs in its mining and refining or "upstream" segment.

Chairman and CEO Klaus Kleinfeld said the company overcame volatile aluminum prices and global economic weakness and was in "strong position to maximize profitable growth" in 2013.

Kleinfeld said aerospace sales were helped by aircraft-order backlogs at Airbus and Boeing, plus improved profits at the world's airlines.

The price that Alcoa received for aluminum fell 2 percent from a year ago but rose nearly 5 percent from the third quarter. Shipments were flat from a year ago.

The low prices were a factor in the announcement last month by Moody's Investor Service that it could downgrade Alcoa's credit rating to junk status. Alcoa has been trying to reduce debt to keep its investment-grade rating. In the fourth quarter, it cut spending by 12 percent to $6.23 billion.

Alcoa is the first company in the Dow Jones industrial average to report fourth-quarter earnings. Because it makes aluminum for so many key industries, investors study Alcoa's results for clues about the health and direction of the overall economy.

Alcoa shares ended regular trading where they began, unchanged at $9.10. In after-hours trading following the earnings report, the stock rose 8 cents to $9.18.

Associated Press

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Substance Abuse Treatment And How to Fund It | Health and Fitness

For recovering addicts looking to live a alcohol free and clean lifestyle, one of the primary things you can do to get alcohol and drug abuse treatment is acknowledging you have a problem. The next thing, though, is finding the support that you need in order to make your sobriety dreams possible. One of the many efficient ways to do this is with substance rehab. Both inpatient and outpatient venues can be quite a terrific resource in confronting your problem and being sure that you begin to live a lifestyle you want. The examples below clearly show more about the inpatient treatment alternative that may be accessible to you. However, you know that with anything the price can get expensive rather quick. Also discussed are a few positive sources that can help you find the financial help you need in order to complete your treatment and make your future a far better and happier one.

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Alcohol and drug treatment may need to be carried out in house or in an inpatient treatment facility. These are typically closed facilities that focus exclusively on treating affected individuals for addiction. An advantage of most of these places is they offer people with the chance to concentrate on their treatment in a closed and safe environment. This helps to minimize interruptions and allow for a focus that is complete and well-rounded, minus the anxiety about outside impacts. The down-side, however, to these kinds of treatment resources is that they may not be covered with insurance. For that reason, they can become highly costly to individuals that may not have coverage or the resources to pay out of pocket. For that reason, be sure that you have all of the information you need about costs before getting into a program so that you can be sure to start a program that you can see through to the end which will not break your budget while you're carrying it out.

Grants or Loans

Nowadays, there are a number of non-profit companies and government grants that can offer assistance to cover your program expenses. There are many groups and organizations available to help people see financial help to pay for their alcohol and drug abuse therapy. There are government organizations as well that can help and these therapies work while not being a section of the government itself.

Never Stop

If you find that these alcohol and drug rehabilitation are the right option for you, try to find methods to make it work. Some people give up so quick, but doing this is only likely to make your problem worse over time. For that reason, people who would like to need to try their best to get what they need in order to succeed in finding a habit rehabilitation center that will help them to deal with their addictive problems and begin to live a normal and happy life.

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Egypt commission says Mubarak watched uprising

CAIRO (AP) ? Egypt's Hosni Mubarak watched the uprising against him unfold through a live TV feed to his palace, despite his later denial that he knew the extent of the protests and crackdown against them, a member of a fact-finding mission said Wednesday. The finding could lead to the retrial of the 84-year-old ousted president, already serving a life sentence.

In questioning for his trial for the deaths of some 900 protesters during the uprising, Mubarak said he was kept in the dark by top aides as to the gravity of the situation and fended off charges that he ordered or knew of the deadly force used against the protesters.

Mubarak was convicted in June of failing to prevent the deaths. But many Egyptians were angered that he was not convicted for ordering or having a direct role in the crackdown.

Ahmed Ragheb, a rights lawyer and a member of the commission, said state TV had designated a coded satellite TV station that fed live material from cameras installed in Tahrir and surrounding areas directly to Mubarak's Palace throughout the 18-days of the uprising.

"Mubarak knew of all the crimes that took place directly. The images were carried to him live, and he didn't even need security reports," Ragheb told The Associated Press. "This entails a legal responsibility" in the violence against the protesters, including the infamous Camel Battle, where men on horses and camel and other Mubarak supporters stormed the square trying to drive protesters out.

At least 11 people are said to be killed in that attack, and some 25 members of the ruling were tried in the case were set free.

The finding came in a 700-page report on protester deaths the past two years, submitted Wednesday to President Mohammed Morsi. Morsi had formed this commission soon after he came to office in June, having promised during his election campaign that he will order new retrials for former regime officials if new evidence were revealed.

The commission also found that security forces and the military used live ammunition in crackdowns on protesters during the 18-day uprising against Mubarak and during the 17 months of rule by the military that followed his Feb. 11, 2011 fall, Ragheb said. The military repeatedly denied it used live ammunition against protesters, despite several deaths caused by bullets and pellets.

Ragheb refused to give specifics, saying revealing the details could undermine the report and top of some of those newly named in it as responsible for deaths.

He told Al-Masry Al-Youm daily that the report recommends summoning hundreds implicated in the killings of protesters for questioning.

The commission's 16 members include judges, rights lawyers, representatives from the Interior Ministry and intelligence, in addition to family members of some of those killed in the protests. The report was based on evidence and testimony collected over five months.

Morsi on Wednesday asked the commission to hand its report to the general prosecutor to investigate its contents to determine what should be done, according to a statement by his office.

The fact that Mubarak was able to monitor events in Tahrir, if established, could lead to him being charged with premeditated murder, said Khaled Abu Bakr, a lawyer who represented some of the victims in the uprising.

"A retrial might add more jail time if new charges appeared, and it could also change the penalty from life sentence to the death penalty," Abu Bakr said.

The case against Mubarak and top aides was very limited in scope, focusing only on the uprising's first few days and two narrow corruption cases. Mubarak and his two sons were acquitted on corruption charges. His former interior minister, Habib el-Adly, was convicted and sentenced to life in prison for complicity in the crackdown, while six top security aides were acquitted.

Mubarak's life sentence failed to satisfy many who had called for him to be held responsible for ordering the killing, in addition to years of widespread corruption, police abuse and political wrongdoing under his regime.

The report of military use of live ammunition could be more controversial, since any attempt to try generals for protester deaths would spark a backlash from the powerful military.

The transition period managed by the generals who took over from Mubarak was turbulent. Protests against their management of the transition often included violent crackdowns in which at least 100 people died in clashes between protesters and soldiers. The military often blamed unknown assailants for shooting at protesters. Rights groups have held the military responsible for the violence before. But evidence of their use of live ammunition was rarely available.

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Mariam Rizk contributed to this report

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/egypt-commission-says-mubarak-watched-uprising-135539501.html

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