28January2009
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Japanese Defence Minister Yasukazu Hamada has ordered the dispatch of ships to fight pirates off Somalia.
He did not say how many ships would be sent or when, but told the military to assess what sort of force was needed.
Japan’s parliament and Prime Minister Taro Aso would need to pass a formal order before the ships could set off, a process expected to take a month.
Japan would be joining a multi-national effort against piracy which includes ships from the United States and China.
“The pirates’ activities off the Somali coast are a major threat not only to Japan but also to international society and it is a problem that we must deal with urgently,” Mr Hamada said.
No Japanese ship has been taken by pirates yet, the government said, but pirates have fired at three Japanese vessels. No-one was injured.
Japan’s decision animation Viagra movies to go ahead with a deployment took months of debate.
The activities of Japan’s military are highly restricted by Japan’s post-World War II constitution, which limits Japan to conducting only defensive military operations.
Ruling party members have argued that battling pirates should be seen as fighting crime on the high seas, not strictly as a military operation.
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China announced in late December that it would be sending two navy destroyers and a supply vessel to the Gulf of Aden.
Their main mission was described as protecting Chinese vessels and ships delivering humanitarian aid.
China’s deployment was a first for a country that usually eschews involvement in the affairs of other countries.
Also from Asia are ships from South Korea, joining more than a dozen ships from Britain, Iran, the US, France and Germany.
The United Nations Security Council decided in early December to extend for another year its authorisation for countries to enter Somalia’s territorial waters, with advance notice, and use “all necessary means” to stop acts of piracy and armed robbery at sea.
Piracy has taken an increasing toll on international shipping, especially in the Gulf of Aden, one of the world’s busiest sea lanes.
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28January2009
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(CNN) — You know you’re low when you have lower ethical standards than a convicted felon, but that’s where former Sen. Norm Coleman finds himself.
His fellow former senator, Ted Stevens of Alaska, decided not to contest his narrow defeat.
Stevens had little realistic chance of overturning the result, and Alaska needed both its senators as hundreds of billions of dollars were being spent by Congress. Even though he betrayed the public trust, Stevens’ last public act put his state first.
Not so for Coleman, of Minnesota, who has gone to court to block Al Franken from taking office as the newly elected senator. The case could drag on for weeks or even months — and all the while, Minnesota will be fighting for federal funds with one senator tied behind its back.
When initial election night reports suggested a narrow Coleman win, Coleman said if he were trailing, he would forgo a recount and called on Franken to do so. "If you ask me what I would do," he said, "I would step back. I just think the need for the healing process is so important."
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But apparently the healing process is less important to former Sen. Coleman now than it was in November. Of course, that’s not the first example of former Sen. Coleman employing situational ethics.
He was, after all, a self-professed Clinton-Gore Democrat who morphed into a Bush-Cheney Republican. He decried unscrupulous trial lawyers who file lawsuits on behalf of consumers — and now has filed a lawsuit seeking to have the courts giveth what the voters hath taken away.
While former Sen. Coleman litigates, Minnesota misses out. Sen. Amy Klobuchar is doing all she can, but right now, Minnesota has only one more vote in the Senate than Burkina Faso.
Give it up, former Sen. Coleman. You’re like one of those Japanese soldiers hiding in the caves in the 1970s; like one of those doctors who keeps shocking the dead patient 30 minutes after he flat-lines; like a pathetic, creepy stalker.
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You had a count, then a recount. Hundreds of Minnesotans participated. Each ballot was painstakingly and publicly examined.
A bipartisan state canvassing board supervised the whole process and declared that Franken has won. It’s over.
The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Paul Begala.
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25January2009
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Friday Night Lights on Saturday: Episode 3.2, “Tami Knows Best”
by jonathan pacheco
it took me a while to pinpoint what it was connected with this happening that rubbed me the wrong way, but i definitively did. watching the events unfold in “tami knows best,” too much of it seemed contrived. the writers knew where they wanted to indecisive up and they manufactured ways to support there. the problem is, instead of polishing and reworking those scenes, they objective left side them at that. the moments they did focus on were fantastic; they were emotionally genuine and true to each character. the journey it took to get there just felt flop.tyra and tami’s berth is a prime example. i could tell that the concentrated altercation for their story was their final one, with tami expressing her damp squib when tyra stoops to the lowest common denominator to attain the student body choosing. the scene’s emotion, especially from tyra, was very sincere, and i institute it a bit heartbreaking for tyra to have ruined the civility of the person she looks up to the most. even for all that tami sounded a bit too much like eric (purposefully or not), the moment was be realized to the characters. but everything supreme up to it?tyra getting strippers to dance around while she passes operations flyers?felt so gimmicky. i’m not so sure that tyra would stoop that low, at least not so blatantly. this feels like the tyra of the first season (who, with billy riggins, once threw an after-game party that involved strippers as well). coupled with, it all seemed to happen so fast, especially after her big resolution in the seasoned premiere. if tyra were to sink to a lower unchanging to get ahead, i imagine it would be more subtle, more gradual.i complained a bit last week that some of the tim/lyla situation felt manufactured just so we could get a desired staunchness, and i’m regretful that continues this week. the dinner uncomfortable with tim, lyla, buddy, and the mccoys was absolutely irksome. not uncomfortable, which is what they were aiming for, but poorly executed and acted. the landscape that follows, with tim accusing lyla of trying to turn him into someone “classy enough” for her, comes out of nowhere. the reasoning behind the argument is unsubstantial, creating argument in spite of the sake of conflict. again, it all leads to a scene that i did use (tim, pant-less, drinking beer as lyla comes by to bring him a cheeseburger), but why take the phony route to a pudding, legitimate moment?coach is training smash rocklike to get him disposed for any feasible tryout that may pop up. the quondam leading light is having trouble adjusting to the healed knee, and we learn that part of the struggle comes from fear. fearfulness of what? i’m not quite sure. getting hurt again, not being good sufficiency anymore?something like that. it didn’t all make sense, which is why smash’s early moments in the episode frustrated me. the scene where riggins knocks smash down during practice, resulting in a smash hissy seizure, felt so phoney. sober after the player’s explanation, it still doesn’t establish much meaning to me.smash has never been scared of playing ball. now, for some percipience, he is. he has a theory that he was only great because he was a panther, because the team needed him to be. he was part of something bigger than himself. now he’s just a guy training on his old high school field. brian has had an epiphany that some 10 year nfl veterans haven’t even had: it’s not about him. one man can’t win a championship. take a look at this year’s dallas cowboys. started out as wonderful bowl favorites with one of the largest collections of talents in recent memory, and where’d they ruin surpass up? missing the playoffs, because they weren’t a team. terrell owens, tony romo, roy williams?they’re successfully names who are nothing without a team. smash has realized that teamwork and teammates are what made him leading. so what happens when there’s no team on the field, just brian? i liaison this understanding, but at the same time, isn’t it a bit mature for a take off wh …
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24January2009
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Graphic Novel Fridays: All Good Things…
Full disclosure: I am a fan of Joss Whedon’s work. I own the complete Buffy series on DVD and Angel Season 5 (not to mention the respective comics here and here). I am also a fan of the X-Men. So in 2004, when Whedon agreed to write 12 issues of the newly titled Astonishing X-Men comic along with superstar artist John Cassaday, I geeked out.
The last time I’d read an X-Men comic was during Grant Morrison’s controversial New X-Men run (collected in three mammoth volumes), and while it took the team to new places and introduced a few radical ideas, it never had that old-school Uncanny feel I loved as a kid. But Whedon’s first two arcs, Gifted and Dangerous, were chock full of nostalgia and new school mutant mayhem (classic moment: the return of the “fastball special”). He created new teammates and new enemies while managing to keep an older generation of readers happy by using characters like Lockheed in ways they’d never been written before.
After that Eisner Award-winning run, Whedon and Cassaday agreed to another 12 issues, and the second half of Astonishing X-Men is just as good as its first. I’ll probably be chastised for even making the comparison, but like in The Dark Phoenix Saga, the X-Men travel into outer-space to battle and rescue in epic proportions. There just seems to be something about watching these characters quip and trek among the stars that brings out the best in the telling. There’s a particularly rewarding scene in which Whedon pulls a fast one on readers, spinning an entire issue on its head with a bit of telepathic dialogue between characters.
My favorite moment, however, is much more terrestrial. Before heading off into space, the team is mind-wiped by a villain who is too good to spoil. Wolverine reverts to a quivering schoolboy and makes paper cutouts on the X-Mansion floor (”Say mine is the best or I shall be cross all day!”). After an explosion, the still-brainwashed Wolverine falls against a refrigerator and knocks loose the door. A beer can rolls out and lands on his head. In the following close-up panel, Wolverine stares at the beer can, his face blurry in the background. He is thinking. Cassaday makes the most of these tiny moments. The next panel is the same image, only the can is now blurred, and Wolvie’s face is clear–his brow furrowed. And just like that, Wolverine snaps back into consciousness. Beer saves the day.
Sure, readers familiar with Whedon’s writing know there is only one way a happy couple viagra online kaufen will wind up cheap levitra in this story, and yes, the finale relies heavily on Comic Book Physics, but there is also glee in these pages. In this second oversized hardcover, fans can collect all of the final 12 issues plus the Giant-Sized Annual that conclude the total arc. Be sure to note that the first hardcover sadly went out of print (don’t worry, the first twelve issues are still available in six-issue paperback collections here and here). Like Claremont’s Uncanny X-Men and Morrison’s New X-Men, Whedon’s journey is exactly what the title proclaims: Astonishing.
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24January2009
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Two months before dying, a Virginia woman confessed to killing two women nearly 42 years ago, authorities said Friday, telling police she shot the women because they had taunted her for being a lesbian.
Constance Smootz Hevener, 19, was shot to death at an ice cream shop where she worked in 1967.
Sharron Diane Crawford Smith, 60, confessed in a November 28 interview to shooting the women at a Staunton ice cream store in 1967, authorities said.
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"I was just pushed so far," Smith said, according to a transcript of a police interview.
Smith was arrested and charged with first-degree murder in the deaths of Constance Smootz Hevener, 19, and Hevener’s 20-year-old sister-in-law, Carolyn Hevener Perry, according to CNN affiliate WVIR.
But health problems forced a postponement of a December court date, WVIR said, and Smith, who had heart and kidney problems, died January 19.
Authorities on Friday said they consider Smith the guilty party and are working toward closing the case.
In a transcript of the police interview, Smith told police she and the women worked at High’s Ice Cream. The night of the shooting, she went to the store to tell the women she could not work the next day and took her .25-caliber pistol with her.
"I was just going to tell them that I couldn’t work and one thing led to another."
She acknowledged that teasing "about my lifestyle" had gone on for a while.
Asked how the victims knew about it, she said, "How do kids find out about anything? I mean, it was really unusual back then."
She also said her stepfather had sexually abused her, but refused to elaborate on whether that played a role in the shootings or helped push her "over the edge."
"I don’t know. I’m not trying to psychoanalyze it," she said.
In other interviews with police, Smith said that she got into a physical altercation with Hevener at the store, which was consistent with evidence at the crime scene, Commonwealth Attorney Raymond Robertson said. Bruises on Hevener’s body were inconsistent with injuries that would have resulted from a fall after being shot, he told reporters.
"She expressed shame in herself. I never saw any tears. She expressed her concern for the family members [of the victims], as to bringing closure to this case," police investigator Mike King said.
Smith told police she acted alone, authorities said. But Staunton Police Chief Jim Williams said questions about the case remain.
"There will likely be questions surrounding this case we will never be able to answer," he said.
One of those questions was the whereabouts of the murder weapon, but a late development Friday may have solved that mystery.
In the November interview, Smith told police she gave the weapon to a detective on the police force in 1967, David Bocock, and that he buried it.
"He just said that it was sort of dangerous to have a gun, you could hurt somebody," Smith said, according to the transcript. "He said, ‘I’ll fix it for you if you want.’ I figured it was the best thing to do."
It was unclear whether Bocock, who died in 2006, knew of Smith’s involvement in the murders. The two knew each other, as Bocock taught Smith to shoot, but authorities said they were still investigating the relationship and whether Bocock was trying to cover for Smith.
Later Friday, the Staunton News-Leader newspaper reported its circulation manager had turned over to police a .25-caliber automatic handgun.
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24January2009
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Review: Donkey Punch
pleasure and pain — for any film to evoke either emotion takes a estimable effort, for better or worse, and to extract joke sensation visible of the other takes a defter texture yet. olly blackburn’s donkey plug starts out with its characters indulging in all method of proud debauchery, and when they come to bear the consequences of their behavior, their pain becomes our pleasure. that admittedly may not spell not at home ‘entertainment’ for all and sundry, but it wouldn’t be entertaining in the hands of just anyone, and blackburn takes one boat, one majority, a rising tide of panic and a rising many of corpses and uses them all to skill the overwhelm bad news possible.
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22January2009
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What we’re talking about when we talk about Omar Khadr
cbc had a panel of mps discussing omar khadr this afternoon. for the conservatives, it was pierre lemieux, who surely successfully repeated his lines beside “straight-faced crimes” and the “process.” martha entry-way findlay, from the liberals, proceeded to smack him about until lemieux noticed that corridor findlay didn’t have an answer to the question of …
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22January2009
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Hip-Hop Rumors: Remy Ma’s Talent Show!? T.I. Gets Super Real!
disclaimer: all content within this section is pure rumor and generally compel ought to no factual info outside of what the streets have whispered in our ear. read on.update: remy ma’s talent authenticate! rumor has it, remy ma is making the most of her time in jail. in the bedford correctional swiftness, remy was in a tendency show and did full dance routine to beyonce’s “single ladies.” i heard she did a whole ordinary as a replacement for the talent show and?she lost. i didn’t meditate on it, but i find it hard to believe that…(read more)
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22January2009
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Senate votes to confirm Clinton
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the senate has confirmed hillary rodham clinton to become secretary of state.
Carnegie Hall Announces 2009-2010 Season
carnegie hal will put on a three-week survey of chinese music and other performing arts as part of a recession-shrunken program in requital for next season.
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21January2009
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Google Shuts Down Print Ads Program
Days after shutting down Google Video uploads, Catalog Search, Notebook, and Jaiku, Google on Tuesday announced that it will also close its Print Ads program.
“While we hoped that Print Ads would create a new revenue stream for newspapers and produce more relevant advertising for consumers, the product has not created the impact that we — or our partners — wanted,” Spencer Spinnell, director of Google Print Ads, wrote in a blog post. “As a result, we will stop offering Print Ads on February 28. For advertisers who have campaigns already booked, we will place their ads through March 31.”
Google started its Print Ads program in 2006 with 50 newspapers and has since expanded that network to 800 publications.
Spinnell acknowledged that Print Ads “is not the right solution” but said Google will use the program’s resources “to try to come up with new and innovative online solutions that will have a meaningful impact for users, advertisers and publishers.”
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