Friday, 21 December 2012

Ronaldo threatens legal action following 'false news' reports - Goal ...

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Source: http://www.goal.com/en-us/news/88/spain/2012/12/20/3618263/ronaldo-threatens-legal-action-following-false-news-reports

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Tips For a Secure Internet Marketing Business | Business Solutions

Internet marketing has had a burst in the past few years, because it is very convenient for people who have no time to spare. It has its advantages, as it is very fast, easy and within reach, but also has disadvantages.

The main disadvantage is that a customer provides personal information to the company. The company?s obligation is to secure this information. Still, there have been cases in which employees were discovered stealing this private information. The question that rises is:?Should one internet shop?? Of course, just because unfortunate situations occur should not prevent you from enjoying the advantages that this century provides us.

All you need is some tips on how to lower the risk of these unwanted events.

One of the first things you need to do after you decide on a purchase, is to make sure you have the right price.

Ask the seller whether you get charged for the delivery, for example, or not. Some customers don?t pay enough attention to these details and receive unexpected bills.

Make sure you receive enough information about the purchase you are about to make. The terms of the purchase are very important. Ask the seller about refund policies. This is your safety net for possible damaged goods.

In order to pay for your object, use only credit or charge cards. The Fair Credit Billing Act will offer you the protection you need when purchasing the object. Don?t sub-estimate this respect of the entire action. It could be the most important one and with the biggest repercussions.

One other tip is to know exactly the person to whom you are doing the purchase. The physical address and phone number published on the site might not be the real ones.

Anyone can create a site and start such a business. If you have any suspicions about this, verify the address and the phone number. It is only after this that you should continue the purchase.

If you are asked financial information via an e-mail, do not send it. Sending private financial information through an e-mail is one of the biggest mistakes people make. You are a sure victim if you do so, because e-mail is not the most secure modality. Transmitting such a personal element is a very delicate business. Do not let yourself fooled by links or pop-up messages.

If you decide to provide personal information, check the privacy policy before doing it. There are very serious sites, for big companies, which have website operators employed. The purpose of these website operators is to create statistics having different topics. The statistics are being done by using parts of your personal information, but only with your approval. Look for those sites that explain their intentions about using information and ask the approval of the customer.

Tricks and strategies for fooling people are at every step in the online world, as they are in the real one. You just need to know how to avoid them. Do not let yourself tricked. Be on the smart side!

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Thursday, 20 December 2012

CTU President Karen Lewis On Sandy Hook: Teach For ... - Eduwonk

I?ve had little to say about the heartbreaking Sandy Hook Elementary massacre because for the most part I see it as a horrible societal problem that visited a school, not a school problem. ?Our schools have their challenges but overall they?re safe places for youngsters. ?I have a column coming in TIME on the gun issue, which is more germane to all of this than education policy.

Not everyone sees it this way. ?On her blog Diane Ravitch has been waving a bloody shirt from Sandy Hook Elementary to make points about teachers unions, charter schools, teacher evaluations and other issues that have nothing to do with the tragedy at that school or the apparent heroics of its staff. ?It?s obscene.

You wonder if you should even call attention to such rank behavior and there is something of a ?yuck? factor to it, for lack of a better word. But Karen Lewis, head of the Chicago Teachers Union, the nation?s third largest teachers union and a force within the national American Federation of Teachers, found a way to make Ravitch look like a statesman while rushing to her defense. ?Writing of a Teach For America teacher or staff member who criticized Ravitch?s linking of the massacre to education policy, Lewis writes:

There might have been a time where ?politicizing? tragic events, especially mass shootings was thought to be in poor taste. That has changed with the 24/7 news cycle that continues to focus far too much time and energy on the perpetrator of the massacre than that of our precious victims. Rosenberg?s ?false outrage? needs to be checked. That same false outrage should show itself when policies his [TEACH FOR AMERICA*] colleagues support kill and disenfranchise children from schools across this nation. We in Chicago have been the victims of their experiments on our children since the current secretary of Education ?ran? CPS.

There?s more.? Ravitch, of course, posted the entire thing at the top of her blog to make sure no one missed it.

Encountering Ravtich?s disrespectful, and in my view revolting, use of this tragedy Lewis, the leader of thousands of educators and a senior leader in the American Federation of Teachers, could have:

Said nothing. ?These were blog posts on a marginal blog that is mostly an echo-chamber anyway.

Or, seized the opportunity to unite and lead by pointing out that there is?a big gun violence problem in our country- especially in Chicago btw ? it makes everyone emotional, especially now in the immediate wake of this tragedy, but this is the time to come together to address this issue regardless of where else we might disagree.

Instead she took option C, which is to double-down on using this tragedy to make a point about unrelated education policy issues and make an unbelievable reference to Teach For America ? whatever you happen to think of the organization ? in the context of this tragedy. Poor taste doesn?t begin to cover it.

There is plenty of disagreement in education, people of good faith can disagree about many of ?today?s hot issues, and those debates sometimes get heated and political.?I don?t know anyone thoughtful who wouldn?t like to have something back or have said something differently at some point. That?s life. ?There is also some bad behavior, dishonesty, graft, and the rest on all sides of these issues. That, too, is life. But ?in almost two decades in education I?ve never been so ashamed for this sector as reading these things. ?You hear this kind of rhetoric and see this sort of zealousness in private a lot, so perhaps it?s illustrative to see it in public. ?But in the wake of what happened in Sandy Hook, and riding on the emotions of that tragedy, it?s disgusting and shameful. We have reached a very sad place.

*For the non-edutypes Teach For America is a national organization that places new teachers in high-need communities. Overview of major issues around it here.

Source: http://www.eduwonk.com/2012/12/karen-lewis-on-sandy-hook-teach-for-america-kills.html

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European U.N. Security Council members to condemn Israel on homes

PARIS (Reuters) - European nations in the 15-member United Nations Security Council are set to jointly condemn Israel over its plans for Jewish settler homes in east Jerusalem, a European diplomatic source said on Tuesday.

Israel approved plans for a further 1,500 homes on Monday after provoking international protests earlier this month against a project for another 3,000 such homes in a sensitive area known as E1.

"We are working on a declaration from the European Union member nations at the Security Council on this subject," the source said, adding that it would be issued in the coming days.

The four European members are France, Britain, Germany and Portugal.

"We shouldn't just focus on the E1 settlements, but on all of them because if each one of these sees the light of day, they could call into question the creation of a two-state solution."

France and Britain, both permanent members of the Security Council, summoned the Israeli ambassadors in their capitals earlier in December to hear appeals for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to reverse course on the settlement program.

"Once the Israeli elections pass in January, we hope there will be more reasonable decisions taken (by the Israelis)," the source said.

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said last week it was imperative that France, Britain and the United States became more directly involved in peace negotiations.

(Reporting by John Irish; editing by Andrew Roche)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/european-u-n-security-council-members-condemn-israel-151122605.html

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Wednesday, 19 December 2012

Jake Locker helps Tennessee Titans beat New York Jets | NFL

Originally published December 17, 2012 at 9:56 PM | Page modified December 17, 2012 at 11:48 PM

NASHVILLE, Tenn. ? The New York Jets' playoff hopes are gone, lost in a wave of turnovers by struggling quarterback Mark Sanchez.

Chris Johnson went 94 yards for the longest touchdown run in the NFL since 2006, and the Tennessee Titans defeated the Jets 14-10 Monday night to eliminate New York from postseason contention.

Titans quarterback Jake Locker, a former Washington Huskies standout from Ferndale, ran 13 yards for a touchdown to close out scoring with 20 seconds left in the third quarter. It was Locker's first touchdown run of the season.

Tennessee (5-9) intercepted four passes by Sanchez to snap a three-game skid.

"Obviously, it's a devastating loss, out of the playoffs, and it hurts beyond belief," Jets coach Rex Ryan said. "I think the thing that really hurts the most is we've got no one to blame but ourselves."

Despite bumbling around for most of the game, the Jets (6-8) somehow still had a chance to win when they took over at the Tennessee 25 with 47 seconds left after a 19-yard punt by Brett Kern.

But Sanchez fumbled a low shotgun snap, teammate Bilal Powell inadvertently kicked the ball away and Titans rookie linebacker Zach Brown recovered to seal the victory.

It was a fitting end to an ugly game. Sanchez finished with five turnovers ? one on each of his team's final three possessions ? and has 24 this season.

"It doesn't feel good hurting your team like that," Sanchez said. "It's not a winning formula. It never feels good."

The Jets needed to win their final three games and get help elsewhere to earn a playoff spot. Instead, the Titans sacked Sanchez three times and got a fourth on Tim Tebow.

Jason McCourty and Michael Griffin each had two interceptions, keeping the Jets out of the playoffs for a second consecutive season.

Johnson, with the names of the victims of Friday's shootings in Connecticut written on his cleats, ran a franchise-record 94 yards for a TD in the second quarter. It was the longest scoring run from scrimmage in a regular-season NFL game since Minnesota's Chester Taylor had a 95-yard TD in a 31-13 victory over the Seahawks in 2006.

Johnson has a league-record six TD runs of at least 80 yards in his career. He finished with 122 yards on 21 carries.

The Jets had plenty of time and opportunity in the fourth quarter to take the lead, but Sanchez kept giving the ball away.

Griffin intercepted Sanchez with 7:09 left on a pass intended for ex-Seahawk Braylon Edwards and got another pick with 1:51 left.

Sanchez finished with his most interceptions in a game since 2009.

Source: http://feeds.seattletimes.com/click.phdo?i=c50daab0651c5fc911bb8ce86d8cd4cb

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Crew blamed for Russian jet crash in Indonesia; ignored warnings, distractions in cockpit

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Indonesia's National Commission on Safety Transportation says human error caused a Russian-made passenger jetliner to crash into a volcano seven months ago during a demonstration flight, killing all 45 people aboard.

Commission Chairman Tatang Kurniadi said Tuesday that data recovered from the Sukhoi Superjet-100 indicated the pilot in command was chatting with a potential buyer in the cockpit just before the plane slammed into Mount Salak in May.

Kurniadi says 38 seconds before the crash, the plane issued warnings saying "pull up, terrain ahead" and later "avoid terrain," but the warnings were ignored.

The Superjet is Russia's first new model of passenger jet since the fall of the Soviet Union two decades ago and is intended to help resurrect its aerospace industry.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/crew-blamed-russian-jet-crash-indonesia-ignored-warnings-060659619.html

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The Relationship Between A Bomb-Tech And His Dog - Business ...

Army Specialist John Nolan?s heart pounded as he stared into the wadi in central Afghanistan. He wasn?t sure what lay beneath the loose, granular dirt.

Was there a 500-pound bomb buried beneath him? If that thing detonated, he would be dead.

Maybe there were some homemade explosive or land mines? If they exploded right now, he might live. He might not.

Man, this was crazy. Searching for something that could end his life instantly was insane. What the hell was he doing?

He missed his wife Cara. She was pregnant with their first child. He wanted to see his little girl born. He didn?t want to die in this Godforsaken pothole of a country.

He looked over his shoulder at Master Sergeant Johnny Ramey who nodded to him. Then he looked past Ramey to the others, the men of the Green Beret team he was assigned to.

Lean, mean and focused?these nine men had nearly 100 deployments among them. The country saw the Green Berets as supermen.

He knew better though. The Green Berets were just men like he was.

They have families.

They have children.

They would die for you, John Nolan. Now you need to make sure they get home safely to their families. Focus, Nolan.

They are your countryman. They need you.

They need the Bear.

Focus on The Bear. Be one with Honza Bear.

He looked down into the wadi which followed the natural contours of the land. During the rainy season the wadi probably carried water. Now it was just another place for the Taliban to set up explosives. Just another place to kill him and his countrymen.

But he had a secret weapon.

The squarely-built, tan, muscular, 100-pound Labrador Retriever moved slowly across the wadi. His nose was low and his tail wagged. He could have been any of the Green Beret?s family dogs back at Fort Bragg North Carolina. But he wasn?t.

A sniff here. A sniff there. Tail wagging. The Labrador appeared to be foraging picnic sites for picnic baskets. But he wasn?t.

Army Specialized Search Dog Honza Bear was on the hunt for explosives.

John followed Honza cautiously. Honza Bear?s yellow stomach was splotched with dark dirt marks. And he looked like he had dark brown mittens on.

What the hell is Honza doing? John wondered.

The local Afghanis said the explosives were in the wadi. Why was Honza Bear leaving the wadi?

Honza Bear paused, his tail wagged more quickly, and his nostrils flared quickly.

John shivered with fear and excitement because he knew that Honza Bear was ?on scent.? Honza Bear could smell an explosive.

Honza Bear moved back up into the grape field. He sniffed the three-foot high thick dirt mounds but apparently didn?t like what he smelled. He went back down into the wadi and then back into the grape field.

He knew Honza Bear was trying to pinpoint the exact spot of the explosive. They called this ?bracketing? in the dog world.

Honza Bear brushed by him, moving at a trot.

John froze. He didn?t want to step on the explosive. It could be set up to blow with a pressure plate. His weight would certainly set the explosive off. And he didn?t want the men to step on it either.

?Master Sergeant Ramey, Honza is on scent. Back away,? John said.

Ramey nodded and placed the team into a secure perimeter, allowing John to focus on Honza Bear.

Honza Bear entered the wadi with his nose low and nostrils flaring quickly. He suddenly stopped and craned his neck up and out.

Had he found it? John wondered.

Honza Bear bolted up and out of the wadi, ran to a mound of dirt near the grape field, and disappeared.

What was going on?

?Honza,? John called as he followed Honza?s path. He knew chasing Honza Bear was risky.

It didn?t matter. Honza Bear was his partner.

He hated losing sight of his dog. John began searching the mounds but couldn?t find him. After a minute or so he caught a glimpse of a yellow tail.

Honza Bear had crawled into a hole half his size and was lying down in a final response. The John saw the five-gallon jugs wrapped in plastic inches from Honza?s nose.

John wanted to pump his fist in excitement. Honza and he had found an explosive. It was their first find. But there was no time to be proud or pat himself on the back.

They needed to get the hell out of there before it exploded.

?Honza, leave it, come,? John said.

Hearing his emergency recall Honza leaped up and jumped out of the hole. He rumbled towards John with his tongue nearly dragging on the ground.

John pulled out the dog?s reward?a ball on a rope?and tossed it in the air. Honza caught it in midair and chomped down. John hooked him up to the leash and dragged the euphoric dog?from the spot.

Ramey had the team engineer, Sergeant First Class Kingston, inspect the hole and the explosives.

Ten minutes later Kingston returned and reported, ?It is 25 pounds of Ammonia Nitrate Aluminum. We can blow it in place. ?

It was confirmed. John?s and Honza?s first find! They had just prevented those 25 pounds of explosives from being used to kill or maim their countrymen.

It was an amazing feeling to remove something so destructive from the battlefield. John had just proven their worth to the Green Berets.

Maybe he could do this for a year.

John knew there was much more to find and remove.

And he knew one thing for sure. Today?s find was relatively simple. They wouldn?t all be like this.

But John wasn?t worried. He had Honza Bear.

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-relationship-between-a-bomb-tech-and-his-dog-2012-12

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