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Teen broadcasts suicide online

Sunday, November 23, 2008

A Pembroke Pines, Florida teenager killed himself Wednesday, November 19, while broadcasting on the live video site Justin.tv. After making suicide threats and being encouraged by Justin.tv viewers and Bodybuilding.com forum members, Abraham K. Biggs, 19, committed suicide by taking an overdose of opiates and benzodiazepine, which had been prescribed for his bipolar disorder.

Biggs first began blogging about his planned suicide 12 hours before the actual event. He died after taking pills and lying on the bed in front of the webcam. After the broadcast, viewers who apparently thought it was a hoax posted messages such as “OMG”, “LOL”, and “hahahah”.

Hours later, after being alerted by viewers who had noticed that Biggs had stopped breathing, law enforcement and paramedics arrived, discovered his body, and covered the camera. The Broward County Medical Examiner’s Office has reportedly confirmed Biggs’ death.

According to Montana Miller of the Bowling Green State University, the circumstances of this case were not shocking: “If it’s not recorded or documented, then it doesn’t even seem worthwhile. For today’s generation it might seem, ‘What’s the point of doing it if everyone isn’t going to see it?'”

Biggs’ sister Rosalind was angry that neither the website nor its viewers reacted soon enough to save him. “They got hits, they got viewers, nothing happened for hours,” she said. She described him as “very happy” and “friendly and outgoing.” “On a normal day, you couldn’t really tell that he got as low as he did.” However, he did have relationship problems with his girlfriend, according to a friend.

Mental health professionals have warned about the possibility that other mentally troubled people would copy his actions. According to Dr. David Shaffer of Columbia University, “Any video showing it as heroic or romantic or glamorous could reduce the anxiety people might feel about suicide. It becomes a respectable behavior and lowers the threshold of suicide.” He and other psychiatrists recommend that potentially suicidal teens talk to others and “tell what’s going on.”

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New legal British tender revealed

Wednesday, April 2, 2008

For the first time in 40 years, the Royal Mint has chosen a new set of designs for the reverse of the coins, first introduced in the Coin Design Competition 2005. The designer, Matthew Dent of Bangor, North Wales, was paid £35,000 (GBP) for his designs, which depict the Shield of the Royal Arms spread over the six denominations below £1, with the entire shield embossed on the £1 coin.

The new coins are expected to come into circulation this summer – and Mr Dent envisions a success: “I can imagine people playing with them, having them on a tabletop and enjoying them. I felt it was important to have a theme running through from one to another.” he said, referring to the puzzle-like nature of the new design, which requires the coins to be arranged in a particular way to see the Shield of the Royal Arms.

The chief executive of the Royal Mint, Andrew Stafford, has said that the obverse of the coins will still depict the portrait of the Queen, like it has since 1998. The old coins will remain legal tender until they slip out of circulation.

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Brazil’s Minas state stops sales of Toyota Corolla

Friday, April 23, 2010

Minas, one of the largest states of Brazil, has stopped the sale of the Toyota Corolla over safety concerns.

The move was made after nine Corolla customers reported that their cars automatically accelerated. The state public prosecutor’s office said in an online statement on Tuesday that the problem is blamed on accelerator pedals sticking underneath floor mats. Local government said the issue was “putting in danger the lives of occupants”.

According to the prosecutor’s office, sales of Corollas may resume when Toyota alters the floormats in its current models. Toyota has recalled over eight million vehicles worldwide due to acceleration problems.

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If renovation is the solution to the problem, you might want to use lawn care and maintenance services to do the job. This ensures that you don’t have to put in the time and hard work to get your lawn back in shape. Professional lawn care and maintenance service providers are experienced and skilled enough to determine the problem with your lawn. They have the tools and the resources to renovate your lawn and turn your property into a beautiful landscape.

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An important decision to make is whether you can manage to renovate the lawn yourself. Lawn renovation involves several stages where special tools and equipment must be used. Professional lawn care and maintenance services are better equipped to handle the task rather than you renting out this equipment from the local gardening store and spending time and effort on lawn renovation.

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2008 Taiwan Designers’ Week shows potential of innovations

Monday, June 30, 2008

Vastly different from the YODEX, mainly focused on students’ designs, the 2008 2nd Taiwan Designers’ Week, a collective show organized by Taiwan Designers’ Web for industrial designs and individual design studios, took place at the Xinyi Public Assembly Hall, formally known as “Si-Si Nan Cun (in Chinese: ????)” and entitled the theme of “Design & Beyond”.

This professional exhibition featured topical designs including “Play with the Eating Culture”, “Wall”, “The Story of Paper-Cutting”, “Basket”, “Between On and Off”, “50 Pleasures in the Study – Dian Shin Refreshment 2008”, “Reincarnation”, and “NoName Design”, at Xinyi Public Assembly Hall; “City Yeast 2008?Balcony Project” at Xue Xue Institute from June 26th to July 8th; “Having A Perfect Life Is Easy” at Taipei Artist Village from June 27th to July 7th. In addition, The XRANGE Studio also created a giant floating cloud at Central Square of Xinyi Public Assembly Hall.

Innovative designs in this exhibition showcased different topical elements on environment, modern lifestyle, current incident, and subculture. Those reflect the achievements by professional designers in Taiwan as Taiwan’s designs were affirmed in several international design competitions including G-mark, Red Dot, and iF.

After this exhibition, Taiwan Design Center, the show co-organizer, scheduled several upcoming competitions and shows from this August to October including “Taiwan Design Expo”, “Taiwan Design Award”, “Taiwan International Design Competition”, and “Creative Taiwan”.

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Gastric bypass surgery performed by remote control

Sunday, August 21, 2005

A robotic system at Stanford Medical Center was used to perform a laparoscopic gastric bypass surgery successfully with a theoretically similar rate of complications to that seen in standard operations. However, as there were only 10 people in the experimental group (and another 10 in the control group), this is not a statistically significant sample.

If this surgical procedure is as successful in large-scale studies, it may lead the way for the use of robotic surgery in even more delicate procedures, such as heart surgery. Note that this is not a fully automated system, as a human doctor controls the operation via remote control. Laparoscopic gastric bypass surgery is a treatment for obesity.

There were concerns that doctors, in the future, might only be trained in the remote control procedure. Ronald G. Latimer, M.D., of Santa Barbara, CA, warned “The fact that surgeons may have to open the patient or might actually need to revert to standard laparoscopic techniques demands that this basic training be a requirement before a robot is purchased. Robots do malfunction, so a backup system is imperative. We should not be seduced to buy this instrument to train surgeons if they are not able to do the primary operations themselves.”

There are precedents for just such a problem occurring. A previous “new technology”, the electrocardiogram (ECG), has lead to a lack of basic education on the older technology, the stethoscope. As a result, many heart conditions now go undiagnosed, especially in children and others who rarely undergo an ECG procedure.

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Characteristics Of High End Women’s Underwear Sales Trend Analysis

By Himfr Tian

1, from mature markets to see the development of women’s underwear, according to survey (January 31, 2005) show that the European market, the British women’s underwear to the cost in most, 103.5 euros per person per year (about 134.5 U.S. dollars).

French women’s underwear expenditure spent each year to 102.30 euros per capita, the German women’s expenditure of 80.20.

British women in underwear expenditure slightly higher than French women, because they buy a lot of pajamas and wearing clothing in the room, while the latter prefer the bra and panties.

Italy and Spain, women’s underwear average annual cost of 77.5 euros and 71.3 euros. European men in underwear on a per capita annual consumption of 19 euros.

Male underwear is not only in the unit, that is far in both sales and women’s underwear, men and women using the mechanism fundamentally different. Male underwear basically no consumer trend to speak of, but there are obvious lingerie consumption trends. As a mature market, the European lingerie market can provide some experience for the Chinese market.

Since the late nineties, the Chinese underwear sales gradually reached the front from behind the scenes, never a kind women’s clothing apparel such as women, as reflected in the ultimate liberation of the human spirit realm. Can be said that high-end lingerie, especially the development of women’s underwear has become a benchmark level of development of social civilization, it tests a level of social tolerance and rationality.

With the consumer consciousness, and is the market value appreciation, when people walked on the clothes of the consumer awareness of leisure time, it means clothes have come to the operating room for the development of content-type channels, competition, many enterprises find themselves in competition, the Red Sea being, how many garment enterprises to improve profits headache.

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Underwear consumption stage gradually become an important sales market landscape, many companies can not be said to result of the role, there is not only to international companies, domestic companies are here to play an important role in market education and guidance.

Second, changes in women’s underwear under the above consumer features research reports run from the age of 15 years old -24 years the largest in Europe to buy underwear for women, followed by the 25-34 year old women? 55 -64 year-old woman’s underwear to buy again on the rise.

Main consumer group of young underwear, and underwear of consumer psychology is compatible.

Underwear as a category, its function and generally quite different underwear. Waichuan underwear and clothing line has been blurred, or even become fashionable in some underwear Waichuan behavior, leading to industry development and changes of the intrinsic strength comes from consumers. Consumer awareness of underwear has changed from simple warmth or modesty tool changes to the health, comfort, beauty needs, more consumer spending layered appearance to the spiritual from the material itself, the transfer of more reflect the requirements underwear social function, such as population pressure, such as awareness of trends, such as groups of symbols and so on. The future, China would surely top their lingerie brand, has its own fashion trend, more a reflection of awareness of local trends, ladies, this is the manifestation of a noble life elements. See this, Chinese enterprises should be a placeholder awareness.

With economic development, women’s underwear will be more inclined to spiritual needs, in addition to health and comfort, also called embodied the spirit of women, with a certain brand connotation. Changes in consumer demand, sales channels on a higher demand. Channels should strengthen the brand, the conceptual model can adapt faster to the Distribution. Underwear sales in two? Selling intermediate links and consumers? Both are equally important. Not enough women’s mental outlook of the product can not be accomplished brand, and brand support but need to have sufficient strength to support the channel.

Underwear profits are high compared with other clothes, so to attract a lot of manufacturers put into them. This led to women’s underwear market in China for a long time, the focus of competition focused on low-cost products. Low-cost consumer products, the value is mainly price, low price does not reflect the spirit of consumer spending, it can not establish the brand.

Underwear brand is the process of understanding and release of human nature is not just an issue of fashion. Fashion a more preferred form of address level, and women’s underwear to solve the more flamboyantly the power of human nature, and only the spirit of liberation, designed to liberate, to breakthrough technology. Therefore, the establishment of women’s brand of casual wear than harder. From this point, although the experience of the baptism of time and the market, underwear market to enter the development stage but also through very orderly process.

Third, the channel model is the lingerie company’s key building highly profitable price of domestic brands is far from the high price of foreign brands, because the nature of domestic enterprises were transformed from the understanding to the design level of attainment are still missing. Design and domestic awareness of underwear has not yet reached the point of leading the spiritual world, therefore, the general standard of local underwear did not build up, so you can see a very interesting phenomenon, as long as the domestic can not.

Shanghai, not a well-known brand, marked only the concept of design and manufacture in Taiwan, a year to more than 30 million sales, net profit could even reach 30%. Of course, they use the sales model is more advanced, their products training center Commissioner in several cities around running training, the advanced management concepts and technology dissemination to partners, the core of their business is jointly and cooperation.

High-end fashion products, profit model, the early consolidation in the industry, certain products as the carrier is to channel model engines. Who can get more time than the rival operating resources, anyone can quickly win. “The concept of integrated product + unique agent” model, the impact of industry to the peak of all enterprises have to face the issue.

The lingerie market is a nets, to do no matter how good, is also a point-like market. Point-like market agents provided adequate operating conditions. In a large number of channels filled with the product, are processing various analogies foreign goods. Since 2005, I contacted all of the clothing of agents, several have started their own lingerie the OEM. China’s underwear brands from top to bottom are surging at any time bred considerable opportunities that the achievements of those who are entrenched in the good agents around the resource.

5, from the underwear market trends, Chinese enterprises won the road underwear market information is not very good, therefore, difficult to find good distributors, dealers or have decided a good brand in the market and industry position, excellent dealer has the enterprise’s scarce resources.

Selling products in general, but the brand is not very strong situation, China’s underwear manufacturers and dealers must fully grasp the opportunity, we must first fully understand the power and status of their industry, and its own regional market appeal, attention to the integration of different existing resources on the regional market, to understand the needs of channel members and the real business of the state. Go in understanding the basis for channel design joint or integrated program, businesses are now missing is the business model.

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Gay Talese on the state of journalism, Iraq and his life

Saturday, October 27, 2007

Gay Talese wants to go to Iraq. “It so happens there is someone that’s working on such a thing right now for me,” the 75-year-old legendary journalist and author told David Shankbone. “Even if I was on Al-Jazeera with a gun to my head, I wouldn’t be pleading with those bastards! I’d say, ‘Go ahead. Make my day.'”

Few reporters will ever reach the stature of Talese. His 1966 profile of Frank Sinatra, Frank Sinatra Has a Cold, was not only cited by The Economist as the greatest profile of Sinatra ever written, but is considered the greatest of any celebrity profile ever written. In the 70th anniversary issue of Esquire in October 2003, the editors declared the piece the “Best Story Esquire Ever Published.”

Talese helped create and define a new style of literary reporting called New Journalism. Talese himself told National Public Radio he rejects this label (“The term new journalism became very fashionable on college campuses in the 1970s and some of its practitioners tended to be a little loose with the facts. And that’s where I wanted to part company.”)

He is not bothered by the Bancrofts selling The Wall Street Journal—”It’s not like we should lament the passing of some noble dynasty!”—to Rupert Murdoch, but he is bothered by how the press supported and sold the Iraq War to the American people. “The press in Washington got us into this war as much as the people that are controlling it,” said Talese. “They took information that was second-hand information, and they went along with it.” He wants to see the Washington press corp disbanded and sent around the country to get back in touch with the people it covers; that the press should not be so focused on–and in bed with–the federal government.

Augusten Burroughs once said that writers are experience junkies, and Talese fits the bill. Talese–who has been married to Nan Talese (she edited James Frey‘s Million Little Piece) for fifty years–can be found at baseball games in Cuba or the gay bars of Beijing, wanting to see humanity in all its experience.

Below is Wikinews reporter David Shankbone’s interview with Gay Talese.

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Judge to decide on Nigerian election re-run

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

A result is expected today on the possibility of an election re-run in Nigeria. Opposition parties claim that current President Umaru Yar’Adua’s People’s Democratic Party (PDP) fixed the results of the 2007 election in his favour and are calling to have the result annulled. So far, the tribunal has rejected one out of the two petitions calling for the annulment.

International suspicions were also raised at the time, with some voicing concern over the election.

A Nigerian judge is currently delivering the ruling on the case of granting the opposition parties a re-run, neither of which claim to have won the previous election. The decision could have negative impacts – if another election is called, it could be seen as an admittance of a ‘false democracy’ occurring in the last election and therefore undermining the political process in Nigeria. However, if no re-run of the election is called, it could cause instability between political rivals and may spark protests.

Emma Esau, of the Alliance for Credible elections, told the BBC: “We have faith the judges will give us a good ruling, and in any case we don’t believe there will be violence after the decision is announced. This will not take Nigeria to the brink.”

Yar’Adua assumed office on 29th May 2007 after the election in April, where he won 70% of the vote. Since then, he has became the first Nigerian leader to declare his personal assets, as well as overturning hikes in petroleum and tax made by the previous government. Despite these positive steps, he has also been surrounded by controversy, with several governors who served him before 2007 being charged by the EFCC, the anti-corruption commission.

Election annulments have already been passed for seven of thirty-six state governors and even the senate president, David Mark.

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