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Apr 30, 2012

HEALTH News, Fitness, Wellness, Diets, Apr 30, 2012

9 Health Myths Debunked
Huffington Post (blog)
Our world is saturated with advice about health and fitness. It is hurled at us from every direction - from sources that are clearly suspect (infomercials, fashion magazines and my "stylist") to those that are meant to have more heft, legitimacy and ...
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What is body intelligence?
Inquirer.net
Knowledge of safe and effective health and lifestyle practices from credible sources and professionals will protect us from the dangers of quick-fix diets and supplements. The correct lifestyle knowledge and skills will lead to health and fitness.
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EUROZONE Crisis News, Apr 30, 2012

Emerging markets hold breath as EU banks shrink
Reuters
* Euro zone crisis ripples far and wide * Asia fears reprise of post-Lehman banking drought * Eastern Europe in firing line due to close EU links * ECB's cheap loans buy time for banks, emerging markets By Alan Wheatley, Global Economics Correspondent ...
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EARTHQUAKE News, Apr 30, 2012

New hotels arise amid ruins in Haitian capital
Atlanta Journal Constitution
In this April 26, 2012 photo, a man rearranges power lines in a camp for people displaced by the 2010 earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. This city is undergoing the largest hotel building boom in its history, raising expectations that investors will ...
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Atlanta Journal Constitution
New hotels constructed amid ruins in Haitian capital
Statesman Journal
Residents of a camp for those displaced by the 2010 earthquake are photographed Thursday in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. / By Ramon Espinosa, AP PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Glimmers of hope are coming to this devastated capital and its surrounding cities, ...
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DIED, Apr 30, 2012

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Prime Minister Netanyahu's Father Dies at 102
Wall Street Journal
AP JERUSALEM—Ben-Zion Netanyahu, the historian and Zionist activist whose skepticism about peacemaking with the Arabs helped to shape the world outlook of his son, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, died on Monday. He was 102.
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Ben-Zion Netanyahu, father of Israeli prime minister, dies at 102
Los Angeles Times
JERUSALEM -- The man said to have had the most profound influence on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his father, historian Ben-Zion Netanyahu, died early Monday in his Jerusalem home at age 102. Born Ben-Zion Milikovsky in Warsaw in 1910, ...
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CNN World News, Apr 30, 2012

England's game of year draws attention from across pond
CNN
By Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN Wayne Rooney, left, and Vincent Kompany did battle in October's Manchester derby, which City won handily 6-1. (CNN) -- It's no Super Bowl. Heck, it's no Monday Night Football, but for an American audience, ...
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England's game of year draws attention from across pond
CNN
By Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN Wayne Rooney, left, and Vincent Kompany did battle in October's Manchester derby, which City won handily 6-1. (CNN) -- It's no Super Bowl. Heck, it's no Monday Night Football, but for an American audience, ...
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ACTIONAID News, Apr 30, 2012

NGO Cautions Country On GMOs
AllAfrica.com
Speaking exclusively to East African Business Week in Dar es Salaam last week, Mr. Elias Mtinda, the Agriculture and Food Security Advisor of theActionAid Tanzania, said there is a need for the government to make its own decision without being ...
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Ban tax incentives, agencies tell government
Daily Monitor
By Nicholas Kalungi (email the author) Tax incentives offered by government to attract investments should be banned because they are not economically viable, Tax Justice Network and ActionAid International have said. In a report titled 'Tax competition ...
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NEW ZEALAND HERALD News, Apr 30, 2012

Kim Dotcom in New Zealand political donation row
AFP
The German Internet tycoon, who faces extradition to the United States for allegedly masterminding massive online piracy, told theNew Zealand Herald he donated NZ$50000 ($41000) to ACT Party leader John Banks in 2010. Dotcom, 38, said Banks asked him ...
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AFP
Kim Dotcom: NZ lawmaker tried to hide his donation
Boston.com
AUCKLAND, New Zealand—New Zealand police are investigating an embattled Internet mogul's claim that he gave a lawmaker money that the politician tried to disguise. Kim Dotcom told The New Zealand Herald newspaper he gave conservative lawmaker John ...
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ADRIANA SKLENARIKOVA News, Apr 30, 2012



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NAOMI CAMPBELL News, Apr 30, 2012



JD McPherson
American Songwriter
Here, the lo-fi leaning, former art teacher from Broken Arrow, Oklahoma discusses songwriting, his new album Signs and Signifiers, and his early ode to Naomi Campbell. Don & Phil Everly, Cindy Walker, Nick Lowe, Fats Waller, Joe Strummer, ...
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LINDSAY LOHAN News, Apr 30, 2012


Lindsay Lohan makes waves at the 98th Annual White House Correspondents' weekend
TheCelebrityCafe.com
Lindsay Lohan is one celebrity who is never out of the tabloids for too long, and for better or worse, this weekend in Washington, DC was the perfect end to her long week of breakout news stories. Earlier this week, Lohan was the source of various news ...
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John Oliver on Lindsay Lohan's Correspondents' Dinner Invite: "We've All Let ...
Hollywood.com
By Kelsea Stahler , Hollywood.com Staff | Sunday, April 29, 2012 No one who has heard about Lindsay Lohan's invitation to The White House Correspondents' Dinner on April 28 has received the announcement without letting their jaws drop to the floor.
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Apr 29, 2012

LATEST World News, Apr 29, 2012

Today in History: April 29th
Washington Post
Apr. 29, 2012 - On this day in history:Rioting hits Los Angeles after four white officers are acquitted of most charges in beating of Rodney King; Dachau concentration camp liberated; Jerry Seinfeld born. (/Associated Press) Correction: Clarification: ...
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Apartment Blocks May Host Missiles for Olympics
Washington Post
Apr. 29, 2012 - Surface-to-air missiles could be stationed on the rooftops of an apartment block in east London as part of Britain's air defenses for the Olympics, the country's military confirmed Sunday. (/Associated Press) Correction: Clarification: ...
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UNITED KINGDOM News, Apr 29, 2012

AP source: UK Olympic doping ban declared illegal
San Francisco Chronicle
(04-29) 11:21 PDT LONDON, United Kingdom (AP) -- Britain's last attempt to keep former doping offenders off its Olympic teams has failed, with sports' top court declaring the country's lifetime bans for drug cheats unlawful. A person familiar with the ...
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In UK survey, doctors support denying treatment to smokers, the obese
msnbc.com
By msnbc.com staff A majority of doctors in a United Kingdom survey supported measures to deny non-emergency medical services to smokers and the obese, The Observer newspaper reported Sunday. Although the survey by the networking website doctors.net.uk ...
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TECHNOLOGY News, Apr 29, 2012

United Technologies is latest business to scale back space presence with end ...
Washington Post
United Technologies Corp. is the most recent company to announce it will sharply scale back its role in space exploration. It's selling Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne, a manufacturer of rocket engines and liquid-propulsion systems that it's owned for seven ...
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Innovative Technology Products for Aspiring Artists and Children
Houston Chronicle
Technology expert Scott Steinberg recently spoke with NewsWatch about some of the most innovative technology products of 2012. One product that really caught his eye came from a company that's been in the professional world for quite some time now.
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SCIENCE News, Studies, Research, Technology, Apr 29, 2012

Wind farms may have warming effect: research
Reuters
MORE RESEARCH NEEDED But the researchers said more studies were needed, at different locations and for longer periods, before any firm conclusions could be drawn. Scientists say the world's average temperature has warmed by about 0.8 degrees Celsius ...
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Scientists Find Night-Warming Effect Over Large Wind Farms in Texas
National Science Foundation (press release)
"This study indicates that land surface temperatures have warmed in the vicinity of large wind farms in west-central Texas, especially at night," says Anjuli Bamzai, program director in the NationalScience Foundation's (NSF) Division of Atmospheric ...
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RUSSIA News, Apr 29, 2012

Russia's willful ignorance
New York Daily News
Most surprising of all, the middle classes in large, cosmopolitan cities like St. Petersburg and Moscow, which were praised for the recent democratic protests, actually share many of the Kremlin's prejudices about America. The 2010 scandal overRussian ...
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New York Daily News
Ten-man Zenit beat Dynamo to win Russian title
Malaysia Star
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Ten-man Zenit St Petersburg beat Dynamo Moscow 2-1 on Saturday to claim a second consecutiveRussian Premier League title with three games to spare. Luciano Spalletti's team, backed by Russian energy giant Gazprom, only needed a draw ...
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RECREATION, Leisure News, Apr 29, 2012


Cedar Falls' human, leisure services director retiring after 39 years
Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier
Ward Stubbs, Director of Human and Leisure Services, is retiring after 39 year on the job with the city of Cedar Falls, Iowa. He is pictured at the Cedar Falls RecreationCenter on Wednesday, April 25, 2012. (RICK CHASE / Courier Staff Photographer) ...
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Washington City Leisure Services Department receives recognition
St. George Daily Spectrum
WASHINGTON CITY - The Utah Recreation and Parks Association recently selected the Washington City Leisure Services Department as the recipient of the Best in State Award within a division that included departments from cities with similar populations.
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PHILOSOPHY News, Apr 29, 2012

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Political notebook: EPA official takes heat from Inhofe on comments
Tulsa World
By RANDY KREHBIEL World Staff Writer US Sen. Jim Inhofe renewed his attack on the chief administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency region that includes Oklahoma. In a speech Wednesday on the Senate floor, Inhofe took the EPA's Al Armendariz ...
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OCEANIA News, Apr 29, 2012

Progress for humankind
Joplin Independent
There have also been cases of cannibalism among some tribes in South America, Africa and Oceania. Today this practice is opposed by all civilized peoples. Another type of outrage is the practice in the city of Sparta, where those who were born with ...
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Team USA to play American Samoa in under-19 football tournament
Austin American-Statesman
American Samoa qualified for the eight-team tournament by defeating Australia 93-7 in February in the Junior Oceania Bowl. Team USA, which won the inaugural under-19 world championship in 2009, was awarded the top seed Saturday.
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LIFESTYLE News, Apr 29, 2012

Packaged food industry to touch $30 bn by 2015
New York Daily News
The main categories of packaged food are bakery products, canned processed food, frozen processed food, meal replacement products and condiments. Some emerging new categories in this segment are processed dairy products, frozen ready-to-eat foods, ...
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What's in a Whole Grain?
Fox News
“We must educate consumers on how to find whole-grain foods that provide at least a good source of fiber. Likewise, adding fiber to foods typically eaten – with the addition of bran, germ, and other concentrated sources of fibers – may be an option to ...
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LATIN AMERICA News, Apr 29, 2012


Secret Service investigating another overseas trip
Houston Chronicle
... on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, April 25, 2012, before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the Secret Service prostitution scandal that embarrassed the White House and overshadowed the president's visit to aLatin American summit.
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3 Predictions for This Week
DailyFinance
Even though Netflix wound up delivering a solid financial performance during its first quarter -- posting a substantially narrower deficit than what the market was expecting -- soft revenue guidance and problems in Latin America crushed the stock.
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INVENTIONS News, Aug 29, 2012

George Dempster is elected Knoxville mayor on Nov. 16, 1951. 
 (Knoxville News Sentinel Archive)
George Roby Dempster: Inventor, politician, civic leader
Knoxville News Sentinel
Within 20 years, Dempster could boast of his invention's use in every country in the world. He filed 75 patents during his business career — for suchinventions as the Dempster Balester and the Dempster Diggster — but none brought him more fame than ...
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Students Showcase Their Inventions at UConn
Patch.com
On Friday, the School of Engineering at the University of Connecticut hosted the 28th annual Connecticut Invention Convention, which showcased hundreds of elementary and middle school students from across the state. The students developed inventions ...
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