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Saturday, December 31, 2011
Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak Back In Trial
Wednesday, December 28 2011
(KUTV) CAIRO - The trial of ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak resumed in Cairo today after a three-month delay.
Mubarak was brought to the courthouse in an ambulance and wheeled into his trial on a hospital stretcher.
Hundreds of Egyptians protested outside - demanding the death penalty for their former leader.
The hearing lasted only a few hours before the judge adjourned the trial again until next week.?
Mubarak is charged with ordering the killing of protesters in the uprising, which eventually ended his 30-year rule.
He also faces corruption charges.
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Raytheon gets $69M missile order from US military
Raytheon Missile Systems? in Tucson has received a $69 million missile order from the Pentagon.
The U.S. Navy and Air Force are ordering 115 air-to-air AIM-9X Block II missiles from Raytheon. The Air Force will get 66 of the missiles; the Navy, 49.
The U.S. Defense Department announced the order Thursday afternoon.
That announcement also said 41 percent of the work on the contract will be done in Tucson, with the rest to be performed at other Raytheon locations including Massachusetts, California, Connecticut and Ontario, Canada.
Raytheon Missile Systems? in Tucson has received a $69 million missile order from the Pentagon.
The U.S. Navy and Air Force are ordering 115 air-to-air AIM-9X Block II missiles from Raytheon. The Air Force will get 66 of the missiles; the Navy, 49.
The U.S. Defense Department announced the order Thursday afternoon.
That announcement also said 41 percent of the work on the contract will be done in Tucson, with the rest to be performed at other Raytheon locations including Massachusetts, California, Connecticut and Ontario, Canada.
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Friday, December 30, 2011
Maternal Dietary Counseling Reduces Consumption of Energy-Dense Foods among Infants: A Randomized Controlled Trial.
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Department of Nutrition, Federal University of Health Sciences of Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Abstract
OBJECTIVE:
To evaluate the impact of a dietary counseling in reducing the intake of energy-dense foods by infants.
DESIGN:
A randomized controlled trial.
SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS:
S?o Leopoldo, Brazil. Mothers and infants of a low-income-group population were randomized into intervention (n = 163) and received dietary counseling during 10 home visits, or control (n = 234) groups.
MAIN OUTCOMES MEASURES:
Child consumption of sugar-dense (SD) and lipid-dense (LD) foods at 12 to 16 months.
ANALYSIS:
The effect of the intervention was expressed by relative risks and 95% confidence intervals. Poisson regression analysis was used to determine the association between exclusive breastfeeding and the energy-dense foods intake.
RESULTS:
A smaller proportion of infants from the intervention group consumed candy, soft drinks, honey, cookies, chocolate, and salty snacks. In the intervention group, there was a reduction of 40% and 50% in the proportion of infants who consumed LD and SD foods, respectively. Being breastfed up to 6 months reduced the risk for consumption of LD and SD foods by 58% and 67%, respectively.
CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS:
Dietary counseling to mothers may be effective in reducing the consumption of energy-dense foods among infants, and it is helpful in improving early dietary habits.
Copyright ? 2011 Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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How An Unhealthy Diet Makes Shift Work Even Riskier
By Sophie Bushwick
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For shift workers, odd hours usually mean strange sleeping habits and unhealthy meals. And now an editorial in the journal Public Library of Science Medicine takes the position that unhealthy eating associated with unusual working hours could be considered a new form of occupational hazard. Because such eating is a risk factor for obesity and diabetes. [Poor Diet in Shift Workers: A New Occupational Health Hazard?]
More than 15 percent of workers in the United States are employed in shifts, with workers taking over for each other so that the establishment can stay open for up to 24 hours a day. Because some shifts take place at night, employees have their circadian rhythms disrupted, and thus their metabolisms.
Taking round the clock shifts also makes eating a good diet and getting sufficient exercise difficult. A recent study in the same journal found an increase in diabetes risk among nurses who performed shift work. [An Pan et al, Rotating Night Shift Work and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes: Two Prospective Cohort Studies in Women]
The editorial suggests not only employee incentives, but also legislation to make healthful diets easy and cheap. It concludes that treating poor eating among shift workers as an occupational hazard is consistent with the history of workplace safety rights.
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Thursday, December 29, 2011
Tom Cruise 'Impossible' To Beat At Box Office
'Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol' easily wins #1 spot over long holiday weekend.
By Ryan J. Downey
Tom Cruise in "Mission Impossible - Ghost Protocol"
Photo: Paramount
This Christmas, Tom Cruise was "impossible" to beat at the box office.
"Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol" was the #1 movie over the long holiday weekend, easily beating competition from two competing sequels with an additional $46.2 million as it expanded into wide release. The fourth entry in the Tom Cruise franchise, this one directed by Brad Bird ("The Incredibles"), has racked up $78.6 million in domestic receipts since it debuted in limited release 11 days ago.
"Ghost Protocol" is the best-reviewed entry in the franchise, which kicked off in 1996 with an inaugural film (based on the popular late '60s TV series) directed by Brian De Palma ("Scarface"). Action maestro John Woo ("The Killer") helmed "M:I 2" four years later. The J.J. Abrams-directed "Mission: Impossible III" grossed $134 million during its theatrical run in 2006.
Meanwhile, "Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows" was reviewed far less favorably than its 2009 predecessor. The film, which reunites Robert Downey Jr. in the title role with Jude Law as his faithful partner, Watson, was #2 at the box office with $31.8 million for a two-week total of $90.6 million. "Downey may think this interpretation is an insight, or funny, but it pushes what was already a rude rewriting of the classic characters into eye-rolling camp," wrote the Newark Star Ledger. The first film sits at 70 percent on film review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes' "Tomatometer," while "Game of Shadows" was at a "rotten" 59 percent at press time.
The #3 movie at the box office, itself the third in a series, continues a franchise-long tradition of poor reviews. "Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked" carried a series worst 13 percent score on the "Tomatometer" as it collected $20 million for an 11-day $56.9 million total. Neither "Game of Shadows" nor "Shipwrecked" appear likely to get anywhere near the $200 million grosses of their predecessors.
Four of the other five new releases in theaters were from major filmmakers.
"The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo," the highly anticipated American adaptation of the popular Swedish book from director David Fincher ("Fight Club"), has made $27.7 million since it opened Tuesday night. Steven Spielberg has two new movies out, "The Adventures of Tintin" and "War Horse," which landed at #5 and #7 on the box office chart, respectively. "Tintin" has made $24.1 million while "War Horse" has made $15 million. The latest from director Cameron Crowe opened even lower than his last movie, "Elizabethtown." "We Bought a Zoo," at #6, earned just $15.6 million despite star power in the form of Matt Damon and Scarlett Johansson. Rock journalist turned filmmaker Crowe has worked with box-office topper Tom Cruise twice: first with "Jerry Maguire" in 1996 and later with "Vanilla Sky" in 2001.
Finally, alien invasion horror flick "The Darkest Hour" opened at #8 with just $5.5 million. The film was not screened in advance for critics, but The Hollywood Reporter, which reviewed the movie, blamed a "flatlining screenplay and the absence of even a single compelling character."
Check out everything we've got on "Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol."
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Incredibly close with "Extremely Loud's" Max von Sydow (Reuters)
LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) ? He speaks softly and sometimes strains to hear a question - but at the age of 82, Max von Sydow is still an imposing, even majestic figure. He's tall and upright, full of gravitas but with a twinkle in his eye; after all these years, he is still the face of the knight in "The Seventh Seal," and Jesus in "The Greatest Story Every Told" and Lassefar in "Pelle the Conqueror."
And now he is the Renter in "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close," Stephen Daldry's film drawn from the Jonathan Safran Foer novel about a young boy who embarks on a hunt across New York City to make sense of the tragedy of 9/11, in which his father was killed.
In the film, von Sydow is a mysterious man who doesn't speak, and who rents a room in the house of the grandmother to young Oskar Schell (Thomas Horn). The two become unlikely allies, in the process revealing some lost bits of family history.
While in town for recent screenings of the film, von Sydow sat down with TheWrap to talk about his new role.
It's surprising that despite your career, you only have one Oscar nomination.
Awards are important. They are very important, and it's wonderful if you get them. But when I get a project, I don't think, If I do that well, maybe I'll have an award for it. That's not what this is about.
But if you get something, it's great, because then maybe it means that you will reach more people. What is important, I think, is to reach as many people as you can, and do it as well as you can. Reach them, and inspire then, or amuse them, or maybe in some odd moments help them to discover something they hadn't thought of before.
How did you become involved in "Extremely Loud?"
Well, I have a good agent. She called and said, "Stephen Daldry wants you to be in his film." How wonderful, I admire him very much. A very interesting filmmaker. "Oh, and Tom Hanks will be in it, and Sandra Bullock." I had never met Tom Hanks, but I always liked what he did, and I was looking forward to working with him. Then I got the script and realized I had nothing to do with him. And I didn't meet him until the other day in New York.
But nevertheless, I got the script, and my wife and I read it together. We were totally touched by it, moved by the story. And there was no question. I said, "Yes, I have to do this."
Why?
It's a wonderful story about healing after this terrible tragedy. And I think it's a brilliant idea to let the boy sort of invent his own therapy. Which he sticks to fanatically. He is totally convinced that what he's doing will lead to some sort of an answer, some sort of a solution.
Is it limiting in certain ways and freeing in others to play a character who doesn't speak?
It's a new way of being that I hadn't done before. It was not, shall I say, more difficult than a normal speaking part. The only difference between the Renter and normal people is that he does not speak verbally, he speaks by his writing. But he speaks.
And it was very inspiring to work with young Thomas, who is really an unusually bright young man. Very, very impressive. I'm very much looking forward to seeing what he's going to do in the future.
You keep working pretty steadily.
Not really. I really don't want to keep working, in general terms. But every now and then, if something very special shows up, why not?
Are you not driven to act anymore?
Not necessarily. I can live without it.
Was there a time when you couldn't?
I think there was, yes. I think I was a bit intoxicated by it. Now, I'm maybe a little bit more difficult to convince. What is important for me is to find something that I haven't done before. My problem is that in my early career I had parts in important films, of a special sort. I worked with the famous Ingmar Bergman, who apparently, probably from the point of view of casting directors, was very religious and very philosophical, etc. etc. Max von Sydow has played Jesus, so he's probably just as religious and philosophical also. So if we need a cleric, ask him. I don't know how many priests and how many bishops I've been offered. I've done a few, but most of the time reluctantly. Of course, there are interesting priests and bishops and saints and all this. But most of it is not that interesting.
And then, okay, I'm a foreigner. I'm not American, I'm not English. So they come and offer me the foreigner. Who is the foreigner in the story? The foreigner is most of the time the villain. And very often he's the Nazi. And then funnily enough, they also ask me to play Jewish refugees. So it's sort of two poles, in a sense.
Did you ever try to change Hollywood's vision of what you could do?
No. It's not up to me. What can I do? I don't think they read interviews with me when I say what I just told you. There are casting directors with lots of imagination, but also some with not as much imagination.
What was your experience like watching "Extremely Loud?"
Even if I miss a few scenes that there was no time for, apparently, I think it's a wonderful film. I really do. I was very moved by it. I think it's a very positive film, with the boy who invents his own healing process. It's a film of hope, to me. It's not a tragedy. It deals with a tragedy, but the film is not a tragedy.
(Editing by Zorianna Kit)
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Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Stock futures rise on optimism after Italy auction (AP)
NEW YORK ? Wall Street is set to open higher Wednesday after two successful Italian bond auctions raised hopes that Italy will be able to roll over billions of euros of its debt this year.
Dow futures rose 0.2 percent at 12,244, while S&P 500 futures moved up 0.3 percent to 1,263.40. The Nasdaq composite rose 0.2 percent to 2,290.75.
The Bank of Italy said the average yield on its euro9 billion ($11.8 billion) six-month offering was 3.251 percent, half the 6.504 percent rate it had to pay at the equivalent auction last month. In an auction of two-year bills, the yield fell to 4.853 percent from 7.814 percent last month.
The news pushed up stock prices across Europe. The euro was flat at $1.3069.
In France, the CAC-40 rose 0.5 percent to 3,119, while Germany's DAX was up 0.1 percent at 5,893. The FTSE index of leading British shares gained 0.6 percent at 5,546.
Despite those gains, significant uncertainty remains for the countries that use the euro. The European Central Bank reported that the continent's banks parked a record euro452.00 ($590.72) billion overnight at the bank Tuesday, surpassing the previous record of euro411.80 billion set Monday.
Those figures reflect the distrust that still reigns among banks and indicates that instead of lending to one another, banks would prefer to hold money at low interest rates at the ECB. However, levels also rise and fall for technical reasons as banks adjust their liquidity requirements.
It also reflects a huge infusion of cheap three-year loans to banks from the ECB, carried out last week in an attempt to inoculate the system against the debt crisis.
In Asia, stocks fell overnight, mostly because of concerns about the broader economy.
Japan's Nikkei 225 index fell 0.2 percent to close at 8,423.62 after news that its industrial output dropped a seasonally adjusted 2.6 percent last month ? the first decline in two months.
Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index fell 0.6 percent to 18,518.67, while South Korea's Kospi lost 0.9 percent at1,825.12.
There are also concerns about a slowdown in China's economy.
The Shanghai Composite Index reversed course after early losses, rising 0.2 percent to 2,170.01. But the smaller Shenzhen Composite Index sank 0.5 percent to 849.76.
Benchmark crude oil fell 40 cents to $100.94 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
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Tuesday, December 27, 2011
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Khan wows at rally, emerges as force in Pakistan
KARACHI?? Professional sportsman-turned-politician Imran Khan has cemented his standing as a force in Pakistan politics, observers said Monday after his rally in Karachi brought at least 100,000 supporters onto the streets.
Khan, 59, is riding a wave of dissatisfaction with the government of President Asif Ali Zardari, who is facing challengers from the military and political opponents over his handling of the country and its troubled alliance with the United States.
In a rousing speech punctuated with patriotic musical refrains, he pledged, if elected, to curb Pakistan's endemic corruption and referred to his surging popularity as a "tsunami."
"He is riding a wave of popular politics right now," said Mutahir Ahmed, a professor of International Relations at the University of Karachi told Reuters. "There is a lot of frustration among ordinary people, as well as political workers right now, which he is cashing on."
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Several recent polls have shown Khan is the country?s most popular politician, who entered politics in 1996, four years after he captained the only Pakistani cricket team to clinch the World Cup.
However, popularity has not always translated into influence. In the last 15 years, his Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaaf (PTI), or Pakistan Movement for Justice, has only briefly held one seat in parliament - Khan's own.? Most analysts say Khan could score an upset of 20 to 30 seats in parliament, but that's not enough to give him the premiership. ?It is enough to make him a major political player, however ? or even a kingmaker.
Video: 'Stop fighting and start talking' (on this page)"It's too premature to get into speculation of whether he becomes prime minister or not but the chances of his party getting into parliament look very good," security analyst Imtiaz Gul told Reuters.
Sunday?s rally, one of the largest held in the city in recent years, comes at a time of crisis in Pakistani politics. Tensions are rising between Pakistan's civilian leaders and its generals over a memo that accused the army of plotting a coup after the U.S. raid that killed Osama bin Laden in May.
There are signs that Pakistan's powerful army is fed up with Zardari, who co-chairs the ruling Pakistan People?s Party (PPP), and wants the supreme court or early elections to force him from office. The army chief dismissed any rumors of a coup, however, as "speculation."
Roads jammed for 10 hours
All roads in the port city of Karachi near the rally venue were jammed for more than ten hours, the news agency AFP reported, with the large turnout indicating Khan may no longer be confined to the political sidelines.
"Not only has Imran's status as a rising star in politics been cemented, his PTI will also be a force to reckon with in the coming days," Pakistan?s biggest English language newspaper, The News International, said in an editorial Monday.
Story: Pakistan: 30,000 Islamists rally against US"What we are seeing is a trend of growing support for Imran and his party," it added, although it also questioned some of Khan's ambitious promises such a pledge to end all corruption within 90 days.
"We need a government that changes the system and ends corruption, so we need the PTI to come to power," Khan told the crowd. "The first thing we need to do is end corruption."
"It's time for a change and only PTI and Imran Khan can bring about that change," said Sabina Saifi, 28, a school teacher. She was wearing a PTI cap and had come with her two brothers.
Pakistan news website Dawn said: "Emotions ran high among the participants, including old citizens and those arriving at the venue on wheelchairs, eager to see and hear Imran Khan, who is now recognized as a force to be reckoned with after his successful shows of political prowess in different parts of the country."
Relations between Pakistan and the the United States have reached a crisis point because of a Nov 26 cross-border incident in which NATO aircraft killed 24 Pakistani troops. Pakistan has since shut down NATO supply routes into Afghanistan and demanded an apology.
Khan says that, if elected prime minister, he would end cooperation in the fight against militants based in tribal areas, end the covert campaign of bombings by U.S. drones and refuse all U.S. aid, which totals some $20 billion since 2001.
However, the U.S. ambassador to Pakistan, Cameron Munter, however, said in November that he didn't see Khan as anti-American.
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"Imran Khan is, as far as he tells me, for the same kind of values that we think are important," Munter said on a popular talk show on November 22. "He says he's for democracy, he's for governance that's clean, he's for economic growth. We're all for those things."
Reuters and msnbc.com staff contributed to this report.
Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45789373/ns/world_news-south_and_central_asia/
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Monday, December 26, 2011
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For refugees, leaving California a gamble
OAKLAND -- The rumors circulated for months: Pennsylvania is a better place to live than Oakland for newly arrived Bhutanese refugees.
"All the Bhutanese are migrating to Pennsylvania," Benu Mainali said. "They say it's better. It's easier to find a job."
The 29-year-old refugee wasn't sure whether he should believe the stories of greener Pennsylvanian pastures. He also knew they would soon be covered in snow. But after 19 months in California, he and his family packed their bags 10 days ago, moved across the country and took a gamble on the unknown.
A family that fled rural Bhutan and spent 18 years in a cramped U.N. refugee camp had grown comfortable in Oakland. Now, restless hopes and family ties have uprooted them again.
As he vacuumed his emptied East Oakland apartment and his wife scrubbed the kitchen on their last night in the Bay Area, the couple knew they risked everything they had gained in their short time in the United States.
"I am leaving this place, my apartment, my work," Benu Mainali said. "I have to go start from the beginning. I might regret this later, leaving California, but all my family members are there (in the Northeast). I have to go."
Secondary migration
The Mainalis are following a pattern some call "secondary migration," a state-to-state movement as old as the nation itself.
It's how Scandinavian homesteaders
populated the upper Midwest and Portuguese came to farm the Central Valley, how Long Beach became a Cambodian hub and Pittsburgh, Pa., is turning into a Bhutanese one.Since early 2008, the State Department and community organizations around the country have welcomed nearly 50,000 Bhutanese exiles. The Nepali-speaking refugees spent decades in crowded camps in eastern Nepal after fleeing ethnic conflict in southern Bhutan. International organizations sought to disperse them across the developed world, from Alaska to Australia's Tasmania, trying not to burden any one place with too many people at once.
Now, the newcomers are sorting out where they really want to live.
Oakland remains one of the top 20 cities for Bhutanese refugees in the United States, but among the hundreds who have moved to the city and neighboring Alameda in the past four years, some are already trying their luck elsewhere.
The national Office of Refugee Resettlement does not track secondary migration, but every Bhutanese family knows another that took off for another state this year or is making plans for 2012.
Several families moved from Oakland to upstate New York in recent months, including Benu Mainali's brother and parents. Another migrated to the eastern North Dakota cities of Fargo and Grand Forks. Economic factors drive some of the movement -- North Dakota's cities have the lowest unemployment rates in the nation.
Family reunification may be the biggest tug. One extended family disperses around the country, then relatives share stories about which location offers the best opportunities. For the Mainalis, the spot was the Great Lakes corridor.
They were not alone: In recent months, Pennsylvania surpassed Texas as the top destination for Bhutanese refugees, and upstate New York is not far behind, according to data from the International Organization for Migration, the group tasked to resettle them.
The Mainalis' journey
This newspaper began following the Mainalis in spring 2010, meeting them at the tiny bamboo hut in southeastern Nepal where they had been living since 1992.
Weeks before they set off for America, Benu Mainali, his newlywed wife, Leela, and his 60-something parents informed workers at the United Nations-run camp that they wanted to migrate to Oakland because two relatives had moved there several months earlier.
They had seen photographs of the Golden Gate Bridge but knew almost nothing about California. A former teacher at the camp where he grew up, Benu Mainali was eager to learn and quickly found in Oakland what he desired: A steady job, new and old friends, good weather, freedom and a better quality of life.
He started at $8 an hour stocking goods at Farmer Joe's, a gourmet grocery in the Oakland foothills, and rose to assistant manager at $10 an hour. Supervisors were impressed by his diligence, confidence and his English skills.
Leela Mainali, 21, found work at a pizza shop before giving birth to the couple's first child this summer. Benu's parents, Bishnu and Devi, -- were one-time farmers who spoke no English but were the glue that kept the family together and helped care for their grandchildren.
The apartment the family shared in Oakland's Laurel district became a social space for visitors. Up until his last week there, Benu Mainali used it for meetings of BCA Productions, or Bhutanese California Artist Productions, a filmmaking club for fellow exiles.
Despite the language barriers, 63-year-old Bishnu Mainali, with her warm and expressive personality, also made fast friends. Her neighbor Paw Boh, a Karen refugee from Myanmar,? would visit daily and sometimes take her elder friend to the farmer's market. They communicated in a universal language of gestures and smiles.
Thoughts of moving
Leela Mainali was the first to broach the idea of leaving Oakland, whispering the names of eastern cities in nighttime conversations with her husband. She heard the stories of roomier, less expensive apartments, more plentiful work and less crime. She missed her relatives who were moving to the East Coast. Her older sister's family landed in northern Florida but could not find work there, so they moved to Pittsburgh this fall and found employment immediately despite their limited English.
"In Pennsylvania, it makes no difference," Benu Mainali said. "Even the people who don't speak a word, they're getting a job and making good money."
Benu Mainali's youngest brother, Yadhu, was the first to arrive in Oakland and the first to leave. He took off to join the brothers' oldest siblings in Buffalo, N.Y., where he quickly found a job, started a vocational program and convinced the rest of the family to join him. He wanted their support and company.
Benu Mainali was reluctant. He wanted to quit his job eventually and learn radiology, but he could do that in California, where he already had a network of support.
"I tried to convince them to stay with me here and call Yadhu also to come back," he said. His mother, however, thought her youngest son needed her help. She spent two weeks trying to convince her husband they should leave, and he finally agreed.
"I want to go to New York, just to help him a little bit, so he can go to school," she said, speaking in Nepali through an interpreter. "California is much better to live in, but then I heard the words my son had spoken. The decision is maybe the wrong decision, but because of love for my son, I am leaving."
Dozens of people came to bid the older couple farewell as they packed for New York, and Bishnu Mainali was visibly saddened.
"I am nervous right now, not because of the trip, but because I will be leaving my granddaughter," she said.
The Nov. 30 flight was stressful. Clad in winter clothes, Bishnu and Devi Mainali landed in Denver and were supposed to pick up a connecting flight but thought they were already in Buffalo so walked out of the airport. They wondered why the family wasn't there to pick them up. Bishnu Mainali used hand signals to ask a man with a cellphone for help. They returned to the terminal in time to catch their next flight.
Optimism prevails
By the time his parents had left, Benu Mainali had changed his mind and was ready to leave. Being in the same region as his parents made the move more palatable. At first, the couple and their child would live with his wife's family in a Pittsburgh suburb, about a four-hour drive from Buffalo.
Still, friends persuaded him not to go. Neighbor and family friend Anil Verma, a Myanmar refugee, told the Mainalis it was a bad idea.
"They hear that everything's better. But in reality, it's not," Verma said. "Don't go based on what other people are saying. Wherever you want to try your luck, you go. But don't rely on anyone. Sometimes, things do not come true."
Jobs may be more available in the Rust Belt and Midwest than in the Bay Area, but they pay lower wages, Verma told them. Rents are lower, but fresh vegetables and utility bills can cost more. Oakland is diverse and welcoming, but other cities may be less so and have fewer social services. And moving costs money.
The younger Mainalis stuffed their belongings -- clothes, a pressure cooker and some other kitchen equipment -- in the trunk of their Toyota and had the car towed to Pittsburgh for $850. They spent hundreds more on airfare and have about $5,000 left in savings.
They have car payments and are paying back the International Organization for Migration in monthly installments for the flight that brought them to the United States.
If jobs are hard to find, they could be in financial trouble. But the frugal, plucky family has been through much worse and remains optimistic.
Pittsburgh "may be better than here," Leela Mainali said hours before she left Oakland on Dec. 15.
"After five or six years, after completing school, it may be a better life than now. I will start work, and Benu can study. Or maybe after five years, we will be back in California."
Bhutanese-American hubs
Five years ago, most U.S. cities had just a handful of people who identified as Bhutanese or none at all. Beginning in 2008, a mass resettlement of nearly 50,000 Nepali-speaking refugees from Bhutan has dispersed them across dozens of American cities. The list below charts the 20 metro areas with the largest Bhutanese population as of April 2010, when the U.S. Census was taken. Thousands more have migrated to the United States since the census, while others have moved from one U.S. city to another looking for better opportunities.
Atlanta: 1,693
Dallas-Fort Worth: 993
Houston: 792
Seattle: 733
Phoenix: 639
Tucson, Ariz.: 571
Denver: 566
Syracuse, N.Y.: 523
Chicago: 513
New York City: 498
Nashville, Tenn.: 462
Rochester, N.Y.: 411
Salt Lake City: 399
Erie, Pa.: 395
Akron, Ohio: 388
Oakland: 376
Buffalo, N.Y.: 370
Manchester, N.H.: 320
St. Louis: 307
Concord, N.H.: 291
Source: U.S. Census 2010
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Sunday, December 25, 2011
Entercom Communications Corp. Announces Exchange Offer for ...
Entercom Communications (NYSE: ETM) announced today that its wholly owned finance subsidiary Entercom Radio, LLC (?Entercom Radio?) has commenced an exchange offer for its outstanding unregistered 10?% Senior Notes due 2019, Series A. These notes were originally issued on November 23, 2011, in a private placement exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, in an aggregate principal amount of $220 million. Holders of these notes may exchange them for an equal principal amount of a new issue of 10?% Senior Notes due 2019, Series B, pursuant to an effective registration statement on Form S-4 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Terms of the new notes are substantially identical to those of the original notes, except that the transfer restrictions and registration rights relating to the original notes do not apply to the new notes.
The exchange offer will expire one minute after 11:59 p.m., Eastern Standard Time, on January 25, 2012, unless extended. Tenders of the original notes must be made before the exchange offer expires and may be withdrawn at any time before the exchange offer expires.
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Arizona's gasoline prices fall by more than penny (AP)
PHOENIX ? Gasoline prices in Arizona are down again this week but remain above the $3 entering the Christmas holiday for the first time in years.
Officials with Triple-A Arizona said Thursday that the average price around the state for unleaded regular gasoline is $3.15 a gallon at the pumps. That's down by more than a penny from last week.
This week's national average is $3.21 per gallon, down by more than 4 cents from last week.
Tucson has the lowest average gasoline price in Arizona at $3.02 a gallon while Flagstaff has the highest price at $3.33.
New Mexico has the lowest average gas prices in the continental U.S. at $2.96 a gallon with California having the highest at $3.53 a gallon.
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Mexican chemical and petrochemical firm Mexichem (BMV: MEXCHEM) acquisition target Dutch plastic pipe manufacturer Wavin has obtained commitment from its banks to extend and amend its existing financing facility by 440mn euros (US$575mn), the latter said in a statement.
The financing consists of a 220mn-euro bullet term facility and a 220mn-euro revolving credit facility.
"Covenant levels have been relaxed, whilst conditions and margins remain similar to the existing facility. Maturity has been extended two years to April 2015," Wavin said.
"The new financing facility provides Wavin with sufficient headroom and flexibility to respond to uncertain market conditions and offers a solid base to execute the 'Wavin 2015' strategic program," added the company.
The announcement comes after Wavin earlier this month rejected Mexichem's improved offer of 9 euros/share for all outstanding shares, valuing the firm at 457mn euros.
At the time, Wavin said the new offer, which was increased from the initial 8.50 euros/share offer, still "materially undervalues the company and its prospects."
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Friday, December 23, 2011
Melanie Amaro Wins The X Factor (Videos)
Congrats go out to Melanie Amaro who is officially the first winner of the new Fox hit show The X Factor. Yes Christmas came early for the beautiful brunette with the amazing voice. Last night was The X Factor finale and it was full of joy, tears and surprises. It all began with the shocking announcement that Chris Rene was voted off during the first half of the finale. In all honesty I was rooting for him especially after his performance last night, which you can check out in the below video. Once Rene was gone that left Melanie and singer Josh Krajcik to battle it out to be crowned the winner of the reality TV show. Having to choose between these two outstanding singers got tougher after they sang their version of David Bowi?s ?Heroes?. It was a killer performance that showed just how talented these two really are. Don?t just take my word for it though check out the below video from last night?s show. In the end it was the 19-year old Florida native that took home the $5 million prize and Pepsi spot. The young girl was so in awe and shock she could barely speak. [...]
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Paroled American Berenson arrives in US from Peru (AP)
NEW YORK ? Lori Berenson, a New Yorker paroled from a Peruvian prison after 15 years behind bars for aiding a leftist revolutionary group, arrived in the U.S. on Tuesday for her first visit home since her arrest in 1995.
Berenson, 42, did not speak to reporters after landing at the Newark airport with her 2-year-old son, Salvador. They were escorted by police to a waiting car as the boy looked with wonderment at the gaggle of reporters and flashing cameras.
Earlier, Berenson's mother, Rhoda Berenson, clutched a Bloomingdale's bag containing a winter coat for her grandson as she awaited her daughter's arrival.
"We are looking forward to the first holiday at home in a long, long time, and many relatives who haven't met Salvador are excited to see him," she said. "This is not a political time; this is a time for family, friends and holidays."
Berenson was arrested at age 26 and accused of helping plot an armed takeover of Peru's Congress, which she had entered by saying she was a journalist. The attack never took place.
She admitted helping the Tupac Amaru rebel group rent a safe house where authorities seized a cache of weapons after a shootout. But she has insisted she didn't know guns were stored there and never joined the group.
A daughter of college professors and a onetime student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Berenson was convicted of being an accomplice to terrorism. She won early release last year from her 20-year prison sentence.
She needed Peruvian court approval to spend the holidays with her family in New York City and must return to the South American country by Jan. 11.
Berenson boarded a Continental Airlines flight at Lima's main airport Monday, with many in Peru wondering whether she would come back. She told an Associated Press reporter while waiting for her flight that she intends to return to Peru.
"I just hope we don't get caught in a snowstorm," she said, joking that it would delay her return.
By law, she must remain in Peru until her full sentence lapses unless the country's president decides to commute it.
She refused to grant an in-flight interview to an AP reporter who was on the plane. She also didn't stop to talk to reporters after arriving at her parents' home in New York City.
Berenson has an acute distrust of journalists. Peru's media has been hostile to her, and she has been repeatedly hounded and mobbed by them, including having young Salvador frightened last year by a scrum of photographers and cameramen.
Berenson's departure capped three days of confusion after Peruvian authorities prevented her from boarding a flight to New York on Friday despite court permission, saying she lacked an "exit order." Peruvians wondered whether she was the object of government harassment or simply competing bureaucracies. Migration officials finally cleared her Monday to leave.
Her father, Mark Berenson, said last week that his daughter was looking forward to introducing her son to Hanukkah traditions and showing the boy around New York. He said the toddler loves trees and snow, two things he hasn't seen much of in Peru.
Anibal Apari, Berenson's lawyer, is Salvador's father. He is amicably separated from Berenson, whom he met in prison.
Peru remains deeply scarred from its 1980-2000 conflict, which claimed some 70,000 lives. For many Peruvians, Berenson is a nagging reminder of it.
The country's gaping inequalities drew the young Berenson to Peru from El Salvador, where she had worked for the country's top rebel commander during negotiations that led to a 1992 peace accord.
The Cuba-inspired Tupac Amaru movement was a lesser player in Peru's conflict and Berenson sought it out, she told the AP in an interview last year, because it was similar to other revolutionary movements in Latin America.
The group never engaged in the merciless slaughter of thousands as Shining Path rebels did, but it did carry out kidnappings and selective killings. In the 1980s, it was known for hijacking grocery trucks and distributing food to the poor.
The group most famously raided the Japanese Embassy in Peru in 1996 during a party and held 72 hostages for more than four months. Berenson was No. 3 on the list of "political prisoners" whose release it demanded. A government raid killed all the rebel hostage takers.
Berenson was initially unrepentant after her arrest, but prison life softened her. She was praised as a model prisoner.
Some Peruvians still consider her a terrorist and have insulted her in the street.
But she has also told the AP that, in a country where the gulf between rich and largely indigenous poor remains wide, she believes she is a politically convenient scapegoat.
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Associated Press writers Frank Bajak and Martin Villena in Lima, Peru, contributed to this report.
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Thursday, December 22, 2011
Yahoo expands sharing of stories through Facebook
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ? Yahoo is deepening its connections with Facebook's online social network.
The latest bond announced late Tuesday will enable Facebook users to share more of their activities on Yahoo's websites, including which stories they are reading.
Yahoo Inc. introduced the Facebook-sharing option in its main new section three months ago. The same feature will now be available in 26 other parts of Yahoo's site, including its "omg" service for entertainment news and sections devoted to television, movies and games.
By tying more of its services to Facebook's popularity, Yahoo is hoping to give people more reasons to visit and stick around its website. Yahoo ultimately wants to sell more online advertising. That's an area where Facebook has been gaining ground as its website has emerged as a top Internet hangout.
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Monday, December 19, 2011
"Rudy" inspiration charged with securities fraud (Reuters)
(Reuters) ? U.S. securities regulators on Friday charged Daniel Ruettiger -- the inspiration behind the 1993 movie "Rudy" -- and 12 others with running a scheme to deceive investors into buying stock in Ruettiger's sports drink company.
Rudy Nutrition, which is no longer in business, provided false and misleading statements about the company to investors, the Securities and Exchange Commission said.
The scheme generated more than $11 million in illicit profits, the SEC said.
"Investors were lured into the scheme by Mr. Ruettiger's well-known, feel-good story but found themselves in a situation that did not have a happy ending," SEC enforcement lawyer Scott Friestad said in a statement.
Ruettiger and 10 of the scheme's other participants have agreed to settle the SEC's charges without admitting or denying the allegations. Ruettiger agreed to pay $382,866 to settle the case.
An attorney for Ruettiger could not immediately be reached for comment.
(Reporting By Aruna Viswanatha; Editing by Gerald E. McCormick)
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Sunday, December 18, 2011
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Gingrich says rivals' criticism taking a toll (AP)
DES MOINES, Iowa ? Newt Gingrich tried to quiet unrelenting campaign criticism that he acknowledged had taken a toll as Mitt Romney stepped up insider attacks Saturday in hopes of regaining front-runner status with the first presidential vote little more than two weeks away.
Gingrich, the former House speaker enjoying a late surge in the polls, pledged to correct what he said were his rivals' inaccurate claims about him. Romney, the ex-Massachusetts governor looking for a rebound, portrayed Gingrich as a well-heeled lobbyist since his service in Congress and predicted that conservative voters will reject Gingrich as they learn more about his lengthy Washington record.
"I'm going to let the lawyers decide what is and what is not lobbying, but when it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, typically it's a duck," Romney said.
With the Iowa caucuses Jan. 3 up for grabs, most candidates are redoubling their efforts heading into the holidays, when voters generally tune out the race.
Gingrich is their prime target. Last week alone, anti-Gingrich ads from a Romney ally outspent Gingrich by an 8-to-1 margin on television.
Gingrich cited "the extraordinary negativity of the campaign" during a call from Washington with Iowa supporters. He said he was inclined to hold teleconferences every few days so people can discuss ideas and his campaign can "encourage them to raise any of these things that you get in the mail that are junk and dishonest."
"I'll be glad to personally answer, so you're hearing it from my very own lips," he said in the forum. "We don't have our advertising versus their advertising, but you get to ask me directly."
Romney campaigned in early-voting South Carolina, where tea party activists have given Gingrich a strong lead in polls. Romney told reporters that many voters now are just beginning to pay attention to the race and will turn on Gingrich after they learn about his time in Washington and his role with mortgage company Freddie Mac, a quasi-government agency.
Gingrich's consulting firm collected $1.6 million from the company. Gingrich insists he did not lobby for them and only provided advice.
"I think as tea partyers concentrate on that, for instance, they'll say, `Wow, this really isn't the guy that would represent our views,'" Romney said after a town hall meeting with South Carolina Rep. Tim Scott. "Many tea party folks, I believe, are going to find me to be the ideal candidate."
Gingrich said the attacks on his record have been brutal, but he insisted they are exaggerated.
"I just want to set the record straight," Gingrich told his Iowa backers. "We were paid annually for six years, so the numbers you see are six years of work. Most of that money went to pay overhead ? for staff, for other things. It didn't go directly to me. It went to the company that provided consulting advice."
It's a distinction without a difference, his rivals have said. Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann continued to criticize his tenure as a consultant and Texas Rep. Ron Paul continued an ad accusing him of "serial hypocrisy" for taking Freddie Mac's checks.
During a Friday appearance on Jay Leno's late-night television show, Paul also turned on Bachmann.
"She doesn't like Muslim. She hates them," said Paul, who routinely clashes with his rivals over foreign policy. "She wants to go get them."
Bachmann told reporters in Estherville that was not true.
"I don't hate Muslims. I love the American people," she said. "As president of the United States, my goal will be to keep America safe, free and sovereign."
Texas Gov. Rick Perry rumbled through rural Iowa on a bus tour. Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum stuck to a plan that has won him the honor of spending the most time in the state, yet has not yet translated into support in polls.
Iowa's largest newspaper, The Des Moines Register, announced its endorsement of Romney on its website Saturday evening. It was as much an endorsement of Romney as it was an indictment of his competitors.
"While other candidates have pandered to extremes with attacks on the courts and sermons on Christian values, Romney has pointedly refrained from reckless rhetoric and moralizing," the newspaper wrote.
The paper does not have a track record of predicting winners in Iowa. In 2008, the paper backed Republican Sen. John McCain and Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. Four years earlier, it backed Sen. John Edwards' unsuccessful bid and in 2000 editors backed McCain and Democratic Sen. Bill Bradley. All came up short.
Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, who early on decided against competing in Iowa, was campaigning in New Hampshire. Huntsman, who also served as President Barack Obama's ambassador to China, has kept his focus on New Hampshire, where independent voters are the largest bloc and can vote in either party's primary.
As the Iowa vote neared, Gingrich's decision to take the weekend off from campaigning raised eyebrows given his rivals' busy schedules. Gingrich called the decision "pacing."
Gingrich has prided himself on a nontraditional campaign, but his advantages in the polls could shift if the only exposure to Gingrich comes through rivals' negative ads.
Gingrich's campaign manager noted the onslaught in a fundraising pitch to donors.
"With Newt's opponents spending $9 million on attack ads in Iowa, we need to quickly ramp up our messaging," Michael Krull said Saturday.
Anti-Gingrich ads, courtesy of Romney allies, dominate in Iowa. The Restore Our Future political action committee on Friday spent an additional $1 million on airtime, and broadcast almost $790,000 in commercials against Gingrich last week alone. Gingrich, by comparison, spent roughly 100,000 on broadcast and cable ads.
That looked to continue into the final week before the Christmas holiday.
Romney, who has kept Iowa at arm's length after investing heavily here four years ago only to come up short. His advisers note they have kept in touch with supporters of his 2008 campaign that came in second place in Iowa.
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Hunt reported from Charleston, S.C.
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Saturday, December 17, 2011
Man United to face Ajax in Europa League
By GRAHAM DUNBAR
updated 7:53 a.m. ET Dec. 16, 2011
NYON, Switzerland - Former European champions Manchester United and Ajax will meet in the last 32 of the Europa League.
The two were drawn to face each other Friday.
Defending champion FC Porto will take on Manchester City, while 2010 Europa League champion Atletico Madrid will face Lazio.
In other matches, it's: Stoke vs. Valencia; Udinese vs. PAOK; and Locomotiv Moscow vs. Athletic Bilbao.
The first legs will be played Feb. 16, with the return matches scheduled for Feb. 23.
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Video: Holding down the fort while mom?s at war
>>> as we watch the scenes of americans coming home from military duty overseas, many of those pictures show dad returning. of course that's far from the whole picture. a lot of women are coming home to dads who have been holding down the fort while they have been gone. our report tonight from nbc's mark potter .
>> good morning!
>> reporter: at a home in ft. bragg, north carolina , it's the start of another busy day.
>> up and at them. get a move on.
>> reporter: stay at home dad tim blake wakes his four kids.
>> make sure you wear a coat today, okay?
>> reporter: and gets them ready for school.
>> did everybody get their homework packed up?
>> reporter: blake is a former high school teacher and football coach married to lieutenant army colonel devin blake who has been deployed three times.
>> you think, i love this person, they're wonderful. that's all you think about. then they're gone and you're like -- what? you don't know how to deal with that.
>> reporter: blake says raising kids alone is hard but is made somewhat easier by their resilience.
>> it's amazing to me to watch my kids thrive. to see them thriving during this time and not just holding their own during a deployment.
>> reporter: to make it work blake and the kids have a steady routine including private time with dad. and doing chores, just like when mom is home. on base, blake is a rare stay at home father and jokes he fits right in with the wives.
>> i'm just one of the girls. you know, i coupon. i cut them out. i go shopping. i do all those things.
>> reporter: he also writes a popular blog about military spouses and the importance of taking time for the family to readjust when the deployed parent returns.
>> you've both changed and so the person who's coming home to you is a different person than who left.
>> reporter: but when the homecoming finally occurs, as it did this week -- [ applause ]
>> reporter: -- all that is forgotten for a while.
>> it's a huge blessing that they have been so supportive obviously. and i couldn't get through it without him.
>> reporter: the end of a deployment, where every member of a military family serves their country. mark potter , nbc news, charlotte, north carolina .
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