Monday, July 30, 2012

Linking Water Access and Women?s Rights Towards a New Model for Upward Mobility in India


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By: Tsega Belachew

Editor?s Note: This article was written by Andrea Boston who is a writer with Ashoka Changemakers.

For?Ashoka Fellow Biplab Paul, a series of natural disasters cleared the way for prosperity.

At just 10 years old, Paul experienced a devastating flood growing up in India?s West Bengal state. Years later, after receiving a master?s degree in economics, his interests in philanthropy and environmental education brought him across the country to Gujarat state, where severe drought plagued the poorest of citizens.

Seeing the long-term affects of two very different natural catastrophes convinced Paul that without access to water, people?especially women?in underserved communities had little chance of upward mobility.

Paul then set out to develop a women-led irrigation system that relies on rainwater harvesting and tackles the issues of water scarcity, gender inequality, and poverty.

In Gujarat, high saline levels prevent rainwater from penetrating the soil. Without water, farmers are unable to tend to their crops and are eventually forced to look for work elsewhere.

Biplab Paul?s organization, Naireeta Services Private Limited, borrows loans to install large underground reservoirs, which can provide farmers with much-needed water for up to seven months. Groups of five women are selected to operate the system and sign five-year contracts to repay service and construction costs through their cash crop.

This system earned Paul the?Anil Shah Memorial Award for outstanding work in rural development last year, setting a standard for agricultural innovation and women?s empowerment in India.

Changing Roles

Today, Paul receives numerous accolades and awards for his work, but it didn?t come without its challenges. Locals were initially skeptical of the new women-led system, but were eventually sold on its influence and authority. This has led to an important cultural shift in Gujarat.

?In India?s patriarchal society, changing people?s perception of women?s roles takes decades of time,? he said. ?But one impact is very clear. The primary occupation for men is agriculture, and irrigation is essential for their livelihood. Now, to get a single drop of water for irrigation, men have to approach women members for their permission to gain access.

This automatically gives women the upper hand on a critical resource, which translates as a recognition of women?s role in society.?

The Best Form of Flattery

No good deed goes unnoticed, and Paul?s work has attracted quite a few copycats replicating his model?an act that Paul actually welcomes.

?Imitation is the certificate of success,? Paul said. ?Our technology is being imitated like wild fire and more than 4,000 units have been erected in the last three years.

Although not all of these units are functioning properly, we don?t believe in making a monopoly market of our technology. Based on that principle, we refrained ourselves from taking a patent on the technology. The logic is simple?if we are planning to work for and support the poor, then why should we make the technology under our control?

The technology is open source so that anyone can use it. We do have a non-negotiable principle, however?that the technology should be used for poor people only.

Mother Approved

?In my university days, my parents said, ?a blunder has been made by our only son by deciding to opt for working in rural development without knowing what development is!? It was very hard to digest,? Paul said.

?But in 2010, my mom said with a smile that, ?my son is not earning well, but he has made great developments, not for him but for a good number of people whom he had never met before. I am proud of him.?

I think I can slog in rural India in scorching temperatures for another 100 years to hear these sweet words from my mom and bring a smile to many more moms in this beautiful world.?

This story originally appeared at: Ashoka Peace

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EYES ON LONDON: A queen's approval, Chinese gold

LONDON (AP) ? Around the 2012 Olympics and its host city with journalists from The Associated Press bringing the flavor and details of the games to you:

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HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE

Seems even the queen can't resist the opportunity to act with Daniel Craig.

The British monarch didn't need much persuading to take part in the brief flick that electrified the 2012 London Olympics opening ceremony, says Jackie Brock-Doyle, the spokeswoman for the organizing committee.

"She liked the whole concept Danny brought together," she says ? presumably right down to the detail of having the queen's corgis, Monty, Holly and Willow, similarly take starring roles.

The matter was presented to her majesty by organizing committee chairman Sebastian Coe last year.

? Danica Kirka ? http://twitter.com/danicakirka

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CLOSE SHAVE

British gymnast Louis Smith knows a thing or two about making a statement. The eccentric 23-year-old ? the 2008 Olympic bronze medalist on pommel horse ? is known as much for his well-coiffed hair and elaborate tattoos as his elegant routines.

A couple of days before the biggest ? and perhaps final ? meet of his life, Smith slipped out of the Olympic village to his home in Peterborough to visit his barber.

"I could have used one in the village, but I didn't want to tell him he was doing it wrong," Smith said.

He returned with a distinctive do, with shaved sides and a meticulously groomed flowing flattop.

Smith says the "hip" cut is designed to grab the kind of attention he thinks the sport needs.

?Will Graves ? Twitter http://twitter.com/WillGravesAP

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AN AMAECHI MOMENT

Strolling through security to enter Olympic Park, former British basketball star John Amaechi says he has been quite pleased with how his home country has opened these games.

The center paired with gymnast Nadia Comaneci to take the torch to the roof of the North Greenwich Arena earlier this month and is eager to see how Britain opens against powerful Russia in its men's basketball opener on Sunday.

"It's been wonderful so far, but the real work hasn't even started," Amaechi says. "That will tell the tale."

?Jon Krawczynski ? Twitter http://www.twitter.com/APKrawczynski

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I SEE BY YOUR OUTFIT ...

Dressed head to toe in the British flag ? or, rather, AS the British flag ? Mick Burn wanted to find a spot along the road course to cheer cyclist Mark Cavendish.

But his outfit was so extreme, the man from Watford in Hertfortshire couldn't make it more than a few feet (meters) at a time without being stopped by fans wanting to pose for a picture with him.

"I've been mobbed all day," he says. And he's delighted by that fact.

It took him almost two years and 200 pounds (more than $300) to assemble the outfit, which consisted of everything from "posh golf pants," a waistcoat, his watch, eyeglasses and even his underwear. The toughest item was the sport coat, which cost him 50 pounds (about $75) on eBay.

Burn had thought his niece, rower Lucinda Gooderham, would be competing in these games. She didn't qualify, but he vowed to keep fine-tuning the outfit for Rio.

See a picture of him here: http://pic.twitter.com/IxF6WM7y

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SMOOOOOOOOOOTH

"Louis Smith as smooth as strawberries and cream on pommel horse. It's like he's in slow motion, control in amazing." ? AP's Will Graves tweets from the gymnastics venue. A spectacular pommel horse by Britain's Smith capped the day for the British, who finished almost 2.5 points ahead of China with at a total of 272.420. Team finals are Monday.

?Will Graves ? Twitter http://twitter.com/WillGravesAP

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GHOST TOWN

On a Saturday lunchtime, London's main shopping area, Oxford Street should be packed. Saturday afternoon, it is surprisingly empty of the usual crowd of Londoners and tourists. Were there a lot of late nights last night at opening ceremony parties or are the crowds in different parts of London enjoying the events?

?Fergus Bell ? Twitter http://twitter.com/fergb

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SPIRIT WILLING?

Not everyone in London is infected with the Olympic spirit. A couple of hundred demonstrators have gathered to protest the gigantic corporate and security sides of the games. Among them is one woman with a home-made cross stitch sign declaring: "Bugger the Olympics."

Beneath it, a second one adds: "And the Jubilee." Apparently she's no fan of the monarchy, either.

Most of the protesters say they don't object to the sporting competition. But they resent being told they have to support the games.

?Jill Lawless ? Twitter http://twitter.com/JillLawless

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MY LEGS WERE SHAKING

American Timothy Wang is already out of his first Olympics.

He lost his first table tennis match in four straight games on Saturday to North Korean Kim Song Nam. The experience lasted just a few minutes, beaten 11-5, 11-4, 11-7, 11-4 in the knockout tournament before about 4,000 fans.

He probably spoke for many first-time Olympians ? and even experienced ones ? about being very nervous.

"I walked out and as soon as everyone started cheering, I started to get goose bumps. My legs were shaking while I was playing. The nerves definitely kicked in. I tried to focus before the match, but I really wasn't expecting it when I came out. Over here every match is like center court and all the eyes are on you. In tournaments in the U.S., very few people are there."

? Stephen Wade ? Twitter http://twitter.com/StephenWadeAP

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ROYAL SIGHTING

It's just how she likes it. Princess Anne crossed the road in front of me in Green Park. And, despite the crowds, she went mostly unnoticed, although there was a smattering of cheers.

The queen's daughter is as low-key as a British royal can be. And the British public seems to respect her wishes.

Here's the picture: http://bit.ly/QtNFwn

? Jenna Fryer ? Twitter http://twitter.com/JennaFryer

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TECH FAIL

Japanese volleyball coach Masayoshi Manabe is missing his trusty iPad. Turns out there's no wireless for the coaches to use at the Earls Court venue, something that isn't going over well.

"There is no wi-fi available here. All the teams are in the same condition. We are talking to the organizers," Manabe said through a translator.

Japan swept Algeria 3-0 in the opening match. For now at least, looks like they can do without technology.

? Anne M. Peterson ? Twitter http://twitter.com/anniempeterson

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FIRST GOLD

And the first gold medal has gone to China. Yi Siling has just triumphed in the women's 10-meter air rifle shooting.

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SLOW PHELPS

Michael Phelps was surprisingly slow in the 400-meter individual medley prelims Saturday. He barely made the field and will swim in Lane 8 in the final.

No big deal, right? All lanes are the same.

Not exactly, according to a tweet from former Olympic swimmer Summer Sanders: "Lane 8 is worse than Lane 1 because Phelps breathes to the right on the way home. He won't see the rest of the field."

?Jon Krawczynski ? Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/APKrawczynski

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I CRIED LIKE A BABY

London Mayor Boris Johnson says he spent all night dreaming about the opening ceremony and thinks it was better than China's stunning show four years ago.

"Call me chauvinistic, call me jingoistic, but I think we knocked the spots off Beijing last night," Johnson said.

"From the beginning I was crying like a baby. I just thought it was brilliant."

He lauded the cultural complexity of Danny Boyle's production.

"We weren't just Beefeaters and Big Ben. It was the real story of this country," he said.

? Shawn Pogatchnik ? Twitter http://twitter.com/ShawnPogatchnik

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BILL GATES

The table tennis venue is abuzz with talk that Bill Gates will show up on Saturday ? and he'd see a familiar face in young American singles player Ariel Hsing.

The 16-year-old Californian is friends with Gates and fellow billionaire Warren Buffett, having played demonstration matches against the two earlier this year at Berkshire Hathaway's annual meeting.

She knows them well enough to call them "Uncle Bill" and "Uncle Warren." Is that cool or what?

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NEWSPAPER REACTION

"BLAST-OFF!" thundered the Daily Mail; "Quirky and eccentric ... oh, how very British," judged the Daily Express; "TORCH OF GENIUS: QUEEN IN SKYFALL," was the Daily Mirror's take.

The Times led with a screen grab of James Bond, the queen and her corgis strutting down the red carpet of Buckingham Palace. Its headline: "Shaken and stirred."

The Sun, world famous for its in-your-face headlines, simply said "WOW" on the front page, with "FLAMING FANTASTIC" inside.

? Shawn Pogatchnik ? Twitter http://twitter.com/ShawnPogatchnik

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WHO'S IN CHARGE?

There's a battle for authority at points along Saturday morning's cycling road course. Even soldiers are being ordered around.

A military man in uniform demanded to be allowed to cross the road. A female police officer told him he could go through the gate, but the volunteer refused to open it. They all argued before he climbed atop the gate, saying simply "I'm crossing!"

He then fell hard on his knees on the pavement.

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EARLY GOLD RUSH

The action's well underway, with Britain hoping for an early gold in the men's cycling road race. Elsewhere, swimming heats began, with Michael Phelps, who won eight gold medals at the Beijing Games four years ago, looking to qualify for potentially his first of the London Games.

?Dennis Passa ? Twitter http://twitter.com/dennispassa

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HUGE AUDIENCE

Who says the collective television event is dead?

The BBC says 27 million people watched its coverage of the Olympic opening ceremony ? almost half the entire British population. That's even more than the 20 million who watched last year's royal wedding.

? Jill Lawless ? Twitter http://twitter.com/JillLawless

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Sunday, July 15, 2012

Bishop Clark leaving indelible mark on diocese (Rochester Democrat and Chronicle)

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N.J. organization teaches kids anti-bullying through martial arts ...

The goal of the three-part evening was to educate and train children and parents in the intellectual or developmental disabilities community on current anti-bullying laws and the discipline of a fitness routine

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SPRINGFIELD ? Jonathan Marin called out "ke ahp," Korean for "yell," as he leaped and dodged a foam blocker-bat a martial arts instructor swung at his ankles. A circle of children around the boy cheered.

There was a time when Jonathan could scarcely look another person in the eye, let alone participate in an activity, such as this one in Union County, with a group of rambunctious peers.

The 11-year-old boy has autism, but that?s not what closed him off, his mother said. It was the bullying he experienced at school, directed at him for his developmental disability, that was the real cause of his introversion.

"During fifth grade he became more aware of what his deficits were, but also the kids in his class became more aware and they targeted it," said Victoria Marin of Norwood in Bergen County.

There were jabs during basketball practice, snide remarks about misspelled words and other kinds of cruel chiding that left the young boy sitting alone in the cafeteria every day.

Last week, Jonathan joined about a dozen children, some of whom have intellectual or developmental disabilities, and their parents in an anti-bullying workshop presented by the Family Resource Network, a statewide organization dedicated to disability education and support services.

The goal of the three-part evening was to educate and train children and parents in the intellectual or developmental disabilities community on current anti-bullying laws and the discipline of a fitness routine.

The program, held at the Hwang Martial Arts studio in Springfield, included a talk on cyberbullying, a "Kids on the Block" puppet show about children with disabilities and a martial arts demonstration.

"There?s a lot of information about anti-bullying laws and what they mean and we want to empower all students to understand them," said Adenike Sonaike, a coordinator with the organization. "It?s especially important for this group since they have a higher probability of being bullied.

A Lancet study funded by the World Health Organization?s disability department said this month that children with disabilities are about four times as likely to experience bullying as those who do not have a disability.

Technology has only increased a bully?s reach.

"Years ago, bullying was being pushed by someone, embarrassed in front of friends. You didn?t walk that way home anymore," said Sgt. Michael Hoose of the Union County Prosecutor?s Office. "But when you got home, you were safe. The doors were locked, your parents were there. Today there is no safe haven for a child to go to escape bullying."

Hoose told parents about the dangers of posting one?s whereabouts on websites like FourSquare and Facebook in his lecture on cyberbullying and internet safety. He even encouraged parents to have their children leave their cell phones in the kitchen overnight.

"I?m not telling you take everything away, but do not use this technology if you?re not going to understand the ramifications," he said.

Natalie Hiott-Levine of Millburn in Essex County performed a "Kids on the Block" skit about what it?s like to be a child with an emotional disorder in a mainstream classroom. Hiott-Levine said she got involved because she wants her son?s peers to better understand what it means to have a disability.

Her son, Zach, who has multiple disabilities, attended the event, asking the puppets questions and kicking along to the martial arts demonstration.

"He hasn?t experienced any bullying," Hiott-Levine said. "But this is a way of preparing him for what he could face."

After listening and watching, the children were eager to get up and move for the martial arts portion of the evening. Paul Del Sordo, who teaches pediatric martial arts, said the discipline teaches self-regulation, builds self-esteem and increases muscle tone and range of motion.

"Kids with the inability to handle group sports come in here and the group itself is independent so you do your own thing. But at the same time it?s social, so you?re part of the group," Sordo said.

For 11-year-old Jonathan, the key to finding a sense of security was ballroom dancing. His experience inspired his mom to write a children?s book called "Aiden?s Waltz."

"He is a remarkably different kid from December," Marin said. "Two weeks ago, he danced his first cha-cha with his sister in front of an audience. Whether it?s dance or martial arts, it?s all about finding activities that helps a child be successful, that focuses on ability rather than disability."

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San Diego Comic-Con: 10 Things We Learned At Sony Panel

SAN DIEGO ? Sony hit San Diego Comic-Con's Hall H with guns blazing this year. Literally. We saw Joseph Gordon-Levitt blasting hapless, hooded victims with shotguns and Jessica Biel aiming pistols at futuristic hovercrafts. Then there was Milla Jovovich firing off rounds while spin-kicking enemies and Matt Damon brutally sticking it to the "haves" in a dystopian future.

Blood was spilled and bullets flew, with the future (and the apocalypse) a consistent theme, as stars and filmmakers presented previously unseen footage from the similarly themed sci-fi epics "Resident Evil: Apocalypse," "Total Recall," "Elysium" and "Looper."

Here are a few key things we learned, in no particular order.

1. "Resident Evil: Retribution" is the beginning of the end for the franchise.
After debuting two minutes of the nine-minute "fight to the death" scene between Alice and Jill Valentine, writer/director Paul W.S. Anderson told the crowd "Resident Evil: Retribution" is "definitely the beginning of the end. Everything is coming to a climax. This movie has a lot of big revelations in it and it has an awful lot of death in it." The franchise mastermind's real-life wife, Milla Jovovich, revealed, "He did tell me an idea for [movie] #6. He said, 'I really want to bring this to closure. If we did do another one, I really want to sort of end this story.' "

2. Playing a suburban mom with no fighting skills was "horrifying" for Milla Jovovich.
For a portion of the new movie, Alice thinks she's just an average mom living in the 'burbs. When crazed creatures burst in, she has no martial-arts training, weapons or other abilities to rely upon. "It was horrifying because, to be honest, I didn't really appreciate what it was like to be a superhero until I played a normal person in the 'Resident Evil' world. Normal people have it really bad. They just run and scream and get killed, like, horrifically."

For Anderson, these moments were an important choice for the latest chapter. "We tried to make the movie [bigger] in terms of scale and action but as small and intimate as possible in terms of the Milla character," he explained. "She has a child, she has a husband."

3. The cast of "Total Recall" slept with director Len Wiseman (OK, maybe just one of them).
It's no secret that married couple Kate Beckinsale and director Len Wiseman fell in love while making the "Underworld" movies together. "I'm still offended that you thought of me as this psycho-bitch wife," she joked about her role in "Total Recall." Biel jokingly declared that "the cast couch is not dead!" and added that the vivid world envisioned by Wiseman was part of what drew her to the movie, "besides, of course, sleeping with Len."

4. Colin Farrell didn't try to fill Arnold Schwarzenegger's shoes ? but he almost tried his accent.
All of the folks involved with the "Total Recall" remake noted how different their film is tonally from the 1990 original, which was filled with absurd humor and one-liners. Accordingly, Colin Farrell worked to make the character made famous by the Austrian Oak his own.

"I didn't feel the need to fill those size-18 shoes or whatever size foot Arnie has," Farrell said of Arnold Schwarzenegger. "The film felt different enough that I could go and make it my own." The actor also said he didn't consider using his native Irish accent in the film though, he joked, "I suppose I could've. Is it too late? When is it released?" "I did think about messing around with an Austrian accent ? terrible idea? for about seven minutes," he noted.

5. Jessica Biel's "Total Recall" training: boxing. Bryan Cranston's: drinking.
"Total Recall" is filled with high-flying stunts, tons of mixed-martial arts fighting and even a bit of wall-climbing Parkour for its leads. "I just had loads of chicken, went to the gym, drank protein shakes and tried to get a good night's rest," Farrell explained of his physical preparation. "You do have to train as an athlete would," Biel added. "Eating well, exercising, martial arts, the Parkour; boxing, boxing, boxing, boxing ... and chicken." As for Cranston's villain role? "I was training at night in the bar. Len and I would drink a lot and then we would come up with our character," he said.

6. Kate Beckinsale will put her action experience to work against her daughter's boyfriends.
"I wasn't born like Jessica wielding a javelin and running full tilt," Beckinsale said of he co-star. "I was born sitting down and reading a book and eating something." Be that as it may, the British born actress has certainly developed many skills while making the "Underworld" films and "Total Recall." Her daughter is now 13, she said, so she intends to put those chops to work as a "deterrent to the eighth-grade boys."

7. Joseph Gordon-Levitt went to great lengths to play a young Bruce Willis.
In "Looper," which reunites JGL with the writer/director of the critically acclaimed "Brick," Gordon-Levitt plays an assassin confronted with the task of killing his future self. Without falling into straight imitation, the young actor immersed himself in the entire Bruce Willis filmography, even listening to the actor's voice on his iPod and donning minor prosthetics on his face onscreen.

"I didn't think an impersonation would be appropriate anyway, I thought it would be distracting. I tried to internalize him," Gordon-Levitt told the Hall H crowd. "I watched all [Willis'] movies on repeat. I took the audio from his movies and put them on my iPod so I could listen to them. He recorded some of my voiceover lines and sent them to me so I could listen to them. I've been a fan of his ever since I was a kid."

8. The #1 reason Matt Damon made "Elysium" was "District 9."
The crowd roared their approval at the first extended look at filmmaker Neill Blomkamp's follow-up to "District 9," which envisions a futuristic dystopia, where the rich have escaped to a fancy space station while the rest of humanity toils away down below. Damon plays a world-weary everyman with five days to live who goes to great lengths to change the way things work.

"It was a very easy decision for me," Damon explained. "After I saw 'District 9,' if Neill had called me up out of the blue and said, 'This is Neill Blomkamp, will you be in my next movie?' I would have said yes." Damon said Blomkamp's name belongs right beside Scorsese and Eastwood.

The filmmaker came prepared with what Damon described as an incredibly detailed "graphic novel" on his computer. "There was a whole corresponding book of weaponry, a whole other book of vehicles. There was no question he couldn't answer about the world of 'Elysium.' I'd ask him questions as a joke sometimes," Damon smiled. For example, Damon questioned Blomkamp about why the space station was tilted a certain direction, and the director came back with details involving the position of the sun and NASA studies.

"It's really fun to work with somebody like that who actually does have all of the answers," Damon said.

9. "Elysium" filmed at the world's second largest dump. Fecal matter and pig urine were everywhere.
A few key scenes in "Elysium" were shot at the second-largest trash dump in the world. The crew wore respirators as dust, comprised mostly of fecal matter, was kicked up by helicopters and eventually covered the actors from head to toe. During one scene, Damon's stunt double was trapped under a bunch of riled-up pigs that proceeded to urinate all over him. Damon never regretted choosing the role, though.

"Being a writer also, given that you normally have a lot of lead time, I try to think objectively," he told a fan of his acting approach. "In the case of 'Elysium,' Neill and I sat down and objectively said, 'What are the things I need to do to accomplish this?' You can knock those down objectively: 'I need to work out four hours a day, I've got to shave my head' ... It's kind of that way with all the roles. I try to think about all the little details, 'cause it's always in the details."

10. Jodie Foster loved "Team America: World Police." And so did Matt Damon.
Getting covered in fecal dust isn't the only thing Damon has a sense of humor about. When an audience member brought up the movie "Team America: World Police," which viciously lampoons celebrities, including Damon and his "Elysium" co-star, Jodie Foster, the pair professed their love for the flick.

The guys behind "South Park" went after Damon in the film, aided of course by puppets. "Some people think it's my best performance," Damon joked good-naturedly. "When autograph-seekers come up, I've signed more of the puppet pictures [than anything else]. Unfortunately, I can't take any credit for 'Team America,' because I didn't work on it," he lamented. "I'd like to. Those guys are geniuses."

Stick with MTV as we bring San Diego Comic-Con to you with wall-to-wall convention coverage from the panels to the streets. Hosts Josh Horowitz and Steven Smith are onboard for live broadcasts on fan-favorite movies, comic creators, TV shows, cosplay, gaming and more!

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Saturday, July 14, 2012

NYC Subway Gives Commuters Proof the Train Made Them Late for Work—A Month Later [Excuses]

In large cities, "The subway ate my homework" is about as common an excuse for being late to work as the the ol' doctor's appointment. No one actually believes it. Luckily, New York's MTA has an online system that gives you city-certified proof you're telling the truth. Problem is, it's slower than the city's trains. More »


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Suwunpasert39 Bluetooth Headsets - A Boon For Cell Phone Users

Bluetooth is a technology that enables wireless transfer of information between two devices. Bluetooth headsets are devices allow users to use cell phones without touching the phone. You can make and receive calls by pressing a single button on the headset. These headsets permit you to use your hands as you wish while talking on your cell phone. They fit into the ears and the outer loop around the ear to keeps them in place.Programmable headsets can be preset to answer calls after a specific number of rings. This frees the user from having to even touch the headset or phone to take calls. Those who work in noisy environments opt for these headsets as they have the active noise reduction feature that wards off unwanted sound from reaching the eardrums. Thus the user can communicate without being disturbed. There are popular brands that manufacture headsets with various functional buttons, menus, display screen and even caller identification options.The maximum distance between a bluetooth headset and a phone usually ranges from 25 to 30 feet. Telecommunication between these headsets and phones are usually secure as the connectivity is achieved through short-range radio frequency. Most headsets have a built-in 2 watt speaker that provides standard audio output with least interference. Monaural models of headsets have a single speaker. These headsets are used for only one ear. Users may choose binaural models with speakers for both the ears. Some of these devices have volume adjusters that allow the wearer to choose the desired volume.Things to remember while buying a headsetBefore picking up a bluetooth headset, also known as bluetooth earpiece, you must check if the headset is compatible with your cell phone or not. Since the device is fixed to the ears, make sure that you feel comfortable wearing the headsets. The price of a headset largely depends on its battery power. You can choose from a wide variety of funky colors and styles of headsets as they are currently the most popular phone accessories.These headsets have become popular because of the increased consciousness regarding the fatal consequences of driving while using a cell phone. Hence more and more mobile users are now opting for a hands free communication through bluetooth headsets. Bluetooth headsets are now available at affordable prices. This factor also makes these headsets popular among mobile phone users.

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Friday, July 13, 2012

'Modern Family' girl belts out Adele, Gotye

By Josh Grossberg, E! Online

Aubrey Anderson-Emmons made headlines in January when her "Modern Family" character Lily blurted out a not-so-nice word (bleeped out, of course) on the show. Well, here's a little sugar to go with that spice -- her mom Amy Anderson posted this adorable video of Aubrey, 5,?getting into another great "A"-name, Adele, with "Someone Like You."

"Aubrey?is crazy into Adele right now which I love," wrote Anderson on the video's YouTube page. "It's so cute hearing her belt her songs in the car. This is where she likes to sing the most. At first she didn't know if she wanted to learn this song because she thought it was too slow, but now it's one of her favorites."

A video of Aubrey singing shouldn't be too surprising; her ABC bio?reads in part, "She has rather unique musical tastes for a preschooler, and loves the Jackson 5. Her eyes light up at the mention of Michael Jackson's 'Thriller,' to which she can perform the dance moves and lyrics."

No video evidence of that exists on Amy's YouTube?channel, but if you like this video, you might also enjoy Aubrey getting into Gotye's "Somebody That I Used to Know" and another Adele track, "Rolling in the Deep."

Take a listen.

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Luxury Barge Cruises | Travel & Leisure

Luxury Barge cruises holidays is one of the most unique ways to see European countries and beautiful sights. Enjoy the beauty and serenity of the rivers and canals that wind through the countryside and into some of the more exciting cities in this part of the world. Many of these barges are old canal boats that were once used to transport goods from city to city and have been converted into cozy and comfortable or luxurious barge cruises. It gives you a wonderful experience of luxury barge stay which is offer by barge cruises company. There are many companies in England, Ireland, Holland, France, Italy, and Germany that offer luxury barge cruises tours.

Luxury cruise stay a wonderful experience for them who hire luxury barge cruise for holiday in Europe. Luxury cruise offer you different packages according to the customers? requirements like members and days for vacation.? . The style and size of the cruise varies from larger luxury barges to the shorter. Luxury barge cruises provide amenities like you feel stay at home. Well trained staffed like five star hotels offer you his best services for your comfort and lavishness.

Barge cruises provide you good offers for your comfort like pick from home by company?s personal cab and end of day of your tour leave you at home from barge. Luxury barges handle from 5 to25 members. Luxury cruise are available for business meetings, corporate meetings, family tour, and for occasion celebrations. Delicious wines from local vineyards, gourmet cuisine prepared by the onboard chef away from the pressures of modern living. Most meals are served on board, but shore excursions to see the sights often allow for having wonderful intercontinental meals in cities like Paris, London, Amsterdam, and many other countries.

Barge cruises holidays are the perfect choice for a relaxing getaway weekend, short week, or even longer. They provide ample opportunity to go on shore at various moorings or locks along the way and explore the villages and countryside wonderful places and there local culture. Many of us explored the delightful villages along the way on the bicycles that the barge provides for passengers? use. We also walked and bicycled on the tow-path that runs alongside most of the canal, catching up with the barge at a later point as it was moving along the canal at a leisurely 5 mph.

A canal or river luxury barge cruises holiday can provide all kind of experiences. It can be like a floating cozy home-away-from home or a luxury hotel. On board you can relax on deck, drink fine wine, eat great intercontinental foods, meet fun people, and soak up beautiful scenery. Luxury cruise companies provide facilities like pick from the door from your home and after end of tour leave you at the door of your home. Luxury barge cruise vacation tour is good way to relax your mind from the very sophisticated life of today?s world. So please next time you take decision tour by luxury barge.

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Thursday, July 12, 2012

Get Your Own Backyard Ice Skating Rink ? Home Improvement ...

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Are that you simply hockey player, figure skater, or perhaps ordinary enjoy skating? Do you consider that this winter skating time of year is just too brief? Or maybe you have desired your personal Backyard Rink? Should you responded to yes to these questions you might have some choices. You can get out and ice skate all year round, no matter where you are, regardless of what season. You can excellent your hockey game and employ your figure skating moves, all without having to get up first in the morning and becoming in the car drive an automobile anywhere. All you need to do is get up and call at your back yard.

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Walter Hill Wonders What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

We sometimes find ourselves wondering why people who are otherwise furiously creative really want to get into remaking others? work. We wonder even more when it?s someone like Gus Van Sant remaking Psycho, or Walter Hill, who has now announced that he?s remaking 1962 drama What Ever Happened To Baby Jane?

The original is, of course, a grandstanding battle of egos between fading former child star ?Baby? Jane Hudson (Bette Davis) and her former grown-up star sister Blanche (Joan Crawford), who is in a wheelchair after an accident she cannot recall. Jane is now in control of her care, and of her life. And she?s slowly losing her mind?

Hill has written the script and will direct the film. He?s partnering with The Aldrich Company, which has held the rights since Robert Aldrich produced and directed the 1962 film, and has granted him the chance to make the new version.

?The two equal leads demand great performers ? that is a given,? Hill says in a statement picked up by Deadline. ?The intensity of the Gothic storyline makes a reconfiguration of the drama still a potentially searing experience. The idea is to make a modern film without modernizing the period. It needs to resonate the golden age of Hollywood.?

Whoever does take on the roles will have big shoes to fill and an upward battle to win over fans of Crawford and Davis. For his part, Hill is currently putting the finishing touches to Sylvester Stallone action pic Bullet To The Head?

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Triple-screen gaming setups put under the microscope, deemed an attainable luxury

Triple-screen gaming setups put under the microscope, deemed an attainable luxury

Can't help salivating over gaming setups with three screens? The Tech Report knows your hunger, and aims to satiate your cravings with a detailed look at the triple-display efforts of Gigabyte's GeForce GTX 680 OC and ASUS' Radeon HD 7970 DirectCU II Top. The high-end GPUs ran Battlefield 3, Arkham City, Rage and a few other games through the wringer -- competing on temperature, game performance, noise level and more -- outputting each title in a glorious extra-wide resolution, with a few quirks on the side. The Tech Report emerged from the gauntlet reluctant to relinquish its additional displays, extolling the trial as the first "next-generation gaming experience" they've had in a while. What's this mean for you? The author sums it up nicely: "In a few short years, surround gaming has gone from being somewhat of an exotic luxury to something far more attainable." If snagging a multi-panel gaming setup is your goal, venture on to the source below where an unabridged, 11-page breakdown awaits.

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Wednesday, July 11, 2012

War crimes court hands DR Congo rebel 14 years' jail

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Barclays' Diamond accused of misleading inquiry

LONDON (Reuters) - British lawmakers on Tuesday accused Barclays former chief executive Bob Diamond of misleading a parliamentary inquiry into an interest rate-fixing scandal that has forced him to resign and give up bonuses worth up to 20 million pounds ($30 million).

Diamond hit back, calling the comments made by a parliamentary committee "unfair and unfounded".

The affair became a major political issue in Britain this month, after authorities fined Barclays more than $450 million for its part in manipulating a crucial interbank interest rate. Diamond resigned on July 3.

Marcus Agius, the chairman of Barclays when its traders fiddled the rate, appeared before a hostile parliamentary panel as part of its investigation into the row which as caused widespread public anger in Britain.

In 2-1/2 hours of gripping testimony, he acknowledged the central bank chief had played a key role in pushing Diamond out of his job, and described the personal drama behind the scandal.

"I'm not happy to be where I am, as you can imagine," Agius told the panel in a quiet, clipped voice. "It's very difficult as you go back to say what you would have done differently."

Agius was the first Barclays executive to quit when the scandal erupted but that was not enough to protect the hard-charging Diamond, who was forced out of the 300-year-old bank a day later.

Agius, a Cambridge and Harvard educated pillar of the banking establishment, has agreed to stay on as executive chairman to find a successor to Diamond, who testified in parliament last week.

The panel pressed Agius repeatedly on what it saw as inconsistencies between Diamond's evidence last week and the contents of a letter from the financial watchdog to the bank, which was released at the start of Tuesday's hearing.

"LACK OF CANDOUR"

"It will look to us, and frankly it will look to everybody listening, like another example of a complete lack of candor to parliament by the chief executive of Barclays," said committee chairman Andrew Tyrie.

In a tense exchange, John Mann, a lawmaker from the opposition Labour party, said: "He has calculatedly and deliberately misled this parliamentary committee ... Mr. Diamond has been misleading this committee, hasn't he?"

Agius replied: "I can't speak for his testimony."

Diamond, in a letter to Tyrie, later said the accusations were unjustified: "Having watched the committee's session today, I was dismayed that you and some of your fellow committee members appear to have suggested that I was less than candid with the committee last week," he wrote in the letter, which was published by the BBC.

"The comments made at today's hearing have had a terribly unfair impact on my reputation, which is of paramount concern to me."

Neither Diamond nor Agius stand accused of individual wrongdoing in the manipulation of rates.

As lawmakers piled criticism on him, Agius looked tense at times, blowing out his cheeks and shaking his head in disbelief. He interrupted one committee member sharply at one point to correct the pronunciation of his surname.

Shedding light on what went on behind the scenes, Agius said Diamond resigned after the central bank chief summoned Barclays executives and made it clear that their colleague had to go.

"We explained what had happened," said Agius, who visited Diamond at his house in London. "He was utterly depressed as you can imagine. The conversation was not long.

"He asked for time to talk to his family, and we left confident that if he hadn't already made the decision, that he would make the right decision."

BONUSES LOST

Diamond's pay-off has been the subject of intense speculation in a country where anger with the culture of bankers strikes a popular chord. One of the world's richest bankers, Diamond took home 17 million pounds last year alone and has earned at least 120 million pounds since he joined the board in 2005, according to Manifest, a corporate governance group.

In a separate statement, Barclays quoted Diamond as saying he hoped his decision would help the bank move on.

"The wrongful actions of a relative few should not detract from the outstanding work that Barclays employees carry out each day on behalf of clients and customers around the world," the American banker said.

Diamond will still get a year's pay and a cash payment instead of a pension, all worth 2 million pounds, Agius said.

Letters released on Tuesday showed the Financial Services Authority - Britain's financial watchdog - had long shared its concerns with Agius about his bank's behavior and culture.

"The cumulative effect ... has been to leave us with an impression that Barclays has a tendency continually to seek advantage from complex structures or favorable regulatory interpretations," said an April 10 letter sent by FSA Chairman Adair Turner to Agius.

Turner said the concerns had also been raised by Andrew Bailey, the head of banking supervision at the FSA, while attending a Barclays' board meeting in February.

In his testimony last week Diamond said: "I don't remember anything ... I didn't brief before this on the February meeting."

FIRM TONE

When asked about the letter, Agius said: "I don't regard this as damning. I regard this as a firm letter from our regulator." He added however he had never received a letter that harsh from a regulator and described his relationship with the Financial Services Authority as "strained".

More than a dozen other banks are now expected to be drawn into the scandal. The London Interbank Offered Rate underpins transactions worth hundreds of trillions of dollars worldwide.

Mervyn King, the Bank of England governor, has declined to comment on his involvement in Diamond's resignation but he told the BBC in an interview recorded before Agius' testimony that it was time to change the way Britain's banking system worked.

"We don't have enough banks, and those banks that we have, have become too big and they dominate the sector in a way that's rather undesirable," he said.

Libor, or the London interbank offered rate, is compiled from estimates by large international banks of how much they believe they have to pay to borrow from each other. It is used for $550 trillion of interest rate derivatives contracts and influences rates on mortgages, student loans and credit cards.

The rates submitted by banks are compiled by Thomson Reuters, parent company of Reuters, on behalf of the British Bankers' Association.

(Reporting by Matt Scuffham, Douwe Miedema; Steve Slater, David Milliken, Sven Egenter, Venetia Rainey, Paul Sandle, Sophie Kirby, Helen Massy-Beresford; Writing by Maria Golovnina; Editing by Giles Elgood and Alastair Macdonald)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/barclays-diamond-accused-misleading-inquiry-015055703--finance.html

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