Taiwan?s pro-China policies under Ma have benefitted neither its economy nor its people

The China Post - Sunday 21st July, 2013

TAIPEI, Taiwan -- The Coast Guard Administration (CGA) yesterday rescued three Philippine fishermen stranded in Taiwan's fishing waters after their encounter with Tropical Storm ...

13 military recruitment below 2 of target

The China Post - Sunday 21st July, 2013

TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Ministry of National Defense data covering volunteer recruitment has revealed that from January to June this year, the number of newly registered volunteer soldiers for the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and Military Police has reached a mere 462 personnel, still far from the expected 28,000, leading to an achievement rate of less than 2 ...

TI plans new graft poll for Taiwan following skepticism

The China Post - Sunday 21st July, 2013

TAIPEI--Transparency International (TI) will commission a new poll on corruption in Taiwan, an official said yesterday, after the group's original findings sparked widespread ...

Fuel prices hiked by NT$0.1 and NT$0.2 for gas and diesel

The China Post - Sunday 21st July, 2013

TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Effective today, the per-liter price of fuel will be increased by NT$0.1 for gasoline and NT$0.2 for diesel, the Chinese Petroleum Corporation (CPC, ??) announced ...

Awarding ceremony of Taipei Film Festival

Global Times - Sunday 21st July, 2013

The Best Actor winner Jimmy Wong (R) and the Best Actress winner Lin Yen-cheng attend the awarding ceremony of the 15th Taipei Film Festival held in Taipei, southeast China's Taiwan, July 20, 2013. ...

Three Filipinos rescued by Taiwan Coast Guard

Taiwan News Online - Sunday 21st July, 2013

Taipei, July 21 (CNA) Three Filipino fishermen were rescued by a Coast Guard patrol vessel some 40 nautical miles south of Taiwan's southern tip of Eluanbi Sunday, a Taiwanese official said. The 1,800-ton Wei Shin came across a sampan in danger of sinking and the three fishermen asking for help, said Captain Hsu Yun-sheng of the Coast Guard Administration's southern office. The three ...

1 dead 6 injured after van falls into valley

Taiwan News Online - Sunday 21st July, 2013

Taipei, July 21 (CNA) A van carrying a family of seven fell into a valley near Hehuan Mountain in Nantou County on Sunday, possibly because of brake failure, leaving one person dead and six injured. Kuo Shih-liang told the police that he was driving a van carrying his family and the family of his sister-in-law down the mountainous Taiwan Provincial Highway 14A at 10 a.m. when the van's ...

DPP urges immediate review of controversial service trade pact

Taiwan News Online - Sunday 21st July, 2013

China service trade pact, saying that people are mobilizing in opposition to the accord. The Taiwan Association of University Professors, an anti-ruling Kuomintang (KMT) group, will join other local groups in launching a rally in Taipei July 27 to express its opposition to the pact because of its potential negative impact on several service sectors and the lack of legislative review of the deal. ...

Cleaning building windows ranked as least favorite job in Taiwan

Taiwan News Online - Sunday 21st July, 2013

Taipei, July 21 (CNA) Cleaning the windows and exterior walls of buildings was ranked by Taiwanese workers as their least favorite job, according to a recent poll by 1111 Job Bank. Given a choice of several job categories, 45.4 percent of respondents chose window cleaning as a job they would not be willing to do. Some 41.4 percent chose being a fertilizer worker as an undesirable occupation, ...

Taiwan should raise the costs of home ownership scholar

Taiwan News Online - Sunday 21st July, 2013

Taipei, July 21 (CNA) Taiwan's government is considering revising a "luxury tax" on housing transactions to raise more revenue and further curb property speculation, but a Taiwanese scholar on Sunday proposed taking a different approach. Chuang Meng-han, a professor of industrial economics at Tamkang University, advised the government to raise the costs of owning second houses in ...

Civilian prosecutors to look into video issue in dead soldier case

Taiwan News Online - Sunday 21st July, 2013

Taipei, July 21 (CNA) The Taoyuan District Prosecutors Office will investigate a suspiciously blank section of a surveillance video that may have offered clues into an army conscript's death, the office said Sunday. The office said it would launch an investigation into allegations that Col. Chen Yi-ming gave an order to delete parts of the July 1 video to destroy key evidence, because ...

Talk of the Day -- Military in hot water

Taiwan News Online - Sunday 21st July, 2013

The Sunday editions of all local newspapers were dominated by the protest and vigil held Saturday over the death of Army Corporal Hung Chung-chiu, with Taiwan's only evening newspaper reporting on the possible impact of the scandal on the plan to turn Taiwan's military into an all-volunteer force. The following are excerpts on the story from the Sunday papers: United Evening News: ...

Earthquake strikes eastern Taiwan

Taiwan News Online - Sunday 21st July, 2013

Taipei, July 21 (CNA) An earthquake struck eastern Taiwan early Sunday, with no reports of casualties or damages thus far, reports the Central Weather Bureau. The magnitude 4.1 tremor, according to preliminary reports, occurred at 3:19 a.m. with the epicenter at 34.9 km north by west of Hualien City Hall and 9.3 km underground, reported the bureau. The shock was felt in eastern and northern ...

United Daily News Ma re-elected to head KMT amid rising discontent

Taiwan News Online - Sunday 21st July, 2013

Ma Ying-jeou was re-elected as chairman of the Kuomintang (KMT) Saturday amid public outrage over the death of a conscript under suspicious circumstances and the Miaoli County government's forced demolition of four homes. Though Ma won more than 90 percent of the votes in a race in which he ran unopposed, both the president and KMT party members are well aware that the high percentage of ...

Panda cub Yuanzai has great appetite Taipei Zoo

Taiwan News Online - Sunday 21st July, 2013

Taipei, July 21 (CNA) Taipei Zoo's two-week-old panda cub, nicknamed "Yuanzai," has a great appetite, zoo officials said Sunday in its daily update on the panda cub's condition. When feeding time comes, zoo officials first wipe the panda cub's mouth and touch its mouth with the nipple of a baby bottle. Yuanzai, which cannot yet see, then starts greedily sucking the milk ...

Nauru disabled children to visit Taiwan

Taiwan News Online - Sunday 21st July, 2013

Taipei, July 21 (CNA) A group of disabled children and young adults from Nauru will visit Taiwan next week to learn about Taiwanese culture and meet with physically and mentally challenged Taiwanese, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. At the invitation of the ministry, the 10 residents of Nauru, who are visually impaired, hearing impaired or physically disabled, will visit Taiwan from ...

Taiwan wins 1 gold 3 silvers at International Biology Olympiad

Taiwan News Online - Sunday 21st July, 2013

Taipei, July 21 (CNA) Taiwan has won one gold medal and three silvers at the just-concluded International Biology Olympiad (IBO) in Bern, Switzerland, the Ministry of Education said Sunday. Lin Pin-cheng from National Taichung First Senior High School was the only gold medal winner of Taiwan's four-member team. The team's other three members -- Hsu Chia-an from Taipei Municipal Jianguo ...

Pro-independence groups defend textbook wording for Japanese rule

Taiwan News Online - Sunday 21st July, 2013

Japan ese rule" in high school history textbooks. The appeal came after three local publishers recently complained to lawmakers and the Control Yuan that their textbooks were rejected by a ministry textbook review committee because they referred to the colonial era as ...

Taipei by Tao Lin ? review

The Guardian - Sunday 21st July, 2013

GChat -honed style of the American-Taiwanese writer Tao Lin signals suspicion not only of cliche but also the effort required to avoid it: the last line of his new novel, his British debut, both tugs the heartstrings and rolls the eyes when it tells us the main character "felt 'grateful to be ...

Taiwan leader Ma Ying-jeou re-elected KMT chairman

Global Times - Saturday 20th July, 2013

Taiwan leader Ma Ying-jeou was re-elected as chairman of the ruling Kuomintang (KMT) in an uncontested election on Saturday.About 57.86 percent of the voters turned out in the election and Ma won 202,750 valid votes, or nearly 92 percent of the votes, according to the KMT Central Committee.Ma told reporters after the election that he would push for reform in his party during his tenure as KMT ...

Taiwan President re-elected ruling party chair amidst protests

Finland Times - Saturday 20th July, 2013

Taiwan's President Ma Ying-jeouwas on Saturday was again elected chairman of the ruling party almost unanimously, news agency STT reported quoting ...

Jiang backs service pact in meet with Kaohsiung locals

The China Post - Saturday 20th July, 2013

TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Premier Jiang Yi-huah yesterday stressed that the cross-strait service pact is meant to boost Taiwanese businesses' competitiveness in the Chinese market, as he explained the benefits of the freshly signed trade agreement in a meeting with residents in ...

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NCAA rejects claims in concussion lawsuit

CHICAGO (AP) ? Rejecting claims made in a lawsuit concerning concussions, the NCAA said Saturday it has taken steps to protect student athletes from head injuries and that player safety is among the college sports association's core principles.

Attorneys suing the NCAA over its handling of head injuries asked a federal judge Friday to let them expand the lawsuit to include thousands of plaintiffs nationwide. The motion seeking class-action status was filed in U.S. District Court in Chicago, where the original lawsuit was filed in 2011 on behalf of former Eastern Illinois football player Adrian Arrington and several other former athletes.

"Student-athlete safety is one of the NCAA's foundational principles," said spokeswoman Stacey Osburn. "The NCAA has been at the forefront of safety issues throughout its existence."

She said the association has addressed the issue of head injuries through a combination of playing rules, equipment requirements and medical practices. The NCAA does not believe the legal action is appropriate, Osburn said.

Concussions have become a major concern in sports in recent years. The NFL, NHL and college football, among others, have implemented stricter rules on hits to the head and player safety. The NFL is involved in a lawsuit involving more than 4,000 former players seeking millions of dollars for problems they blame on head injuries suffered during their careers.

Attached to the class-action request from those suing the NCAA is a report for the plaintiffs by a leading authority on concussions, Robert Cantu, who cites an internal NCAA survey from 2010. He said the NCAA found that nearly half of the college trainers who responded to the survey indicated they put athletes showing signs of a concussion back into the same game.

"It is well settled in the scientific community that an athlete must never be returned to play on the same day after a concussion diagnosis," said Cantu, who is medical director of the National Center for Catastrophic Sports Injury Research in Chapel Hill, N.C.

The plaintiffs say the NCAA was lax in establishing a clear policy about dealing with concussions, leaving key decisions to individual schools or leagues.

Arrington contends he suffered "numerous and repeated concussions" at Eastern Illinois. He is seeking unspecified monetary damages and changes in policy, including the establishment of a long-term medical monitoring program for injured athletes and new concussion guidelines for schools and coaches.

The NCAA said it has taken recent steps to increase awareness of how to treat possible head injuries, from legislation and outreach efforts to new rules on the playing field. On Friday, the NCAA said it was awarding a $399,999 grant to fund a study into the long-term effects of head injuries in college sports.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/ncaa-rejects-claims-concussion-lawsuit-185437344.html

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Sark School and Community Centre to be fitted with solar energy panels

SOLAR energy panels can now be fitted on the roof of the Sark School and Community Centre.

The Development Control Committee has passed an Island Hall Trustees application for photovoltaic cells to be installed on the south-east and south-west of the building.

Trustee Brian Garrard said the group could now get on with planning the project in more detail.

It is hoped the panels would help save money spent on electricity.

?We had a meeting and discussed this possible option,? he said.

?The Island Hall has a huge roof and it seemed like a good idea to make use of the opportunity.

?We had to wait for planning permission and that was approved by the committee last week.

?The prime consideration was the reduced cost.

?The price of electricity on Sark is very high and this would dramatically reduce this cost.?

He said the project was still in its infancy and the trustees would have to meet again to discuss how they would take it forward.

?We can?t tell yet how much it is going to cost,? said Mr Garrard.

?The Island Hall Trustees will be paying for it but it might be that it is self-financing.?

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A warning from Health Canada for men

_News Talk 770
7/20/2013

Those taking what they believe to be natural health products to let's say...put a spring in their step...should know about some warning from Health Canada. Three natural and one unauthorized...health products promoted as male sexual stimulants were recently tested and found to contain hidden ingredients which may pose a health risk to Canadians and particularly to those with heart issues. The products are called Innerget Instant Erection, Innerget Prolonged Performance, Innerget Everlasting Strength and Megaton 2080 have been marketed across Canada.?Health Canada says some of the hidden ingredients in the products are prescription medications that should only be prescribed by a physician. Anyone who has used or been affected by these products is asked to consult with their healthcare provider and report any adverse reaction to Health Canada. Health Canada has put a halt on the sale of these products.

Source: http://www.newstalk770.com/News/Local/Story.aspx?ID=2009370

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[Baseball] Top 10 of 2012-13 ? #5 ? Coe baseball sweeps #18 Wartburg on Senior Day

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Kurdish-Islamist fighting spreads to Syrian oil fields

By Erika Solomon and Jonathon Burch

BEIRUT/ANKARA | Thu Jul 18, 2013 10:40am EDT

BEIRUT/ANKARA (Reuters) - Kurdish fighters have seized control of a Syrian town on the border with Turkey and are battling Islamist rebel groups linked to al Qaeda for control of oilfields in the northeast of the country.

The fighting is further evidence that the conflict between rebels and President Bashar al-Assad's forces that has engulfed Syria since early 2011 has splintered into turf wars that have little to do with ousting him.

In southern Syria, attacks by rebels on gas and fuel pipelines that supply power stations caused widespread electricity outages, Syria's official news agency said.

Across the border in Jordan, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry visited a refugee camp and was told by angry Syrians that the United States should set up a no-fly zone and safe havens in Syria to protect them.

The capture of Ras al-Ain by the Democratic Union Party (PYD), a Syrian Kurdish party with links to Kurdish militants in Turkey, rang alarm bells in Ankara.

The Turkish government fears the emergence of an autonomous Kurdish region in Syria could embolden home-grown militants of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which is fighting for autonomy in Turkey.

In a statement late on Wednesday, the Turkish military said Ras al-Ain had fallen under the control of the PYD, which it described as a "separatist terrorist organization". Fighting in the town had now stopped.

Turkish troops had shot at PYD fighters in Syria after two rocket-propelled grenades fired from Syria struck a border post on the Turkish side of the frontier.

It was the second time in as many days the military has answered in kind after several stray bullets from Syria struck the Turkish town of Ceylanpinar on Tuesday. The military has now strengthened security along that part of the border.

FIGHTING SPREADS

Clashes in Ras al-Ain between Kurdish militias, who broadly support an autonomous Kurdish region, and Islamist fighters of the Nusra Front broke out on Tuesday after Nusra fighters attacked a Kurdish patrol and captured a gunman, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

The Observatory, a pro-opposition monitoring group, said fighting had now spread deeper into the largely Kurdish province of Hassakeh and battles were raging around the Rumeilan oil field, about 200 km (125 miles) east of Ras al-Ain.

The field had mostly been shut down, opposition activists said, but a few of its pipelines may still be supplying refineries in the government-held cities of Homs and Baniyas.

Since March 2011, when the uprising against Assad began, Syria's overall oil production has fallen by nearly 60 percent to 153,000 barrels per day last October, the U.S. Energy Information Administration estimates.

The Observatory said at least 29 people had been killed since fighting between Islamists and Kurds erupted on Tuesday.

Kurdish units have seized an oil field area called Suwaidiya 20 and there are clashes in Suwaidiya oil region 3, according to the Observatory.

It said the Nusra Front and others al Qaeda-linked fighters were shelling Ras al-Ain from nearby positions

"Part of the reason for the spread is just anger at the Kurdish consolidation of control in Ras al-Ain, it's like revenge and punishment," said one activist who works with the rebels and who asked not to be named.

GROWING STRUGGLE

"But I also believe there this is part of a growing struggle for control of oil and gas in the region and the rebels are using this as an opportunity."

Nawaf Khalil, a spokesman for the Kurdish PYD, said the Kurds would fight back to maintain the autonomous zone they had set up in the area.

"We fought hard to drive out the repressive regime and its army and we liberated the area from oppression. We will not allow either regime control or these al Qaeda-linked groups.

"What is pushing them to fight us is their antagonism against our autonomous rule in Kurdish areas. I believe their other goal is Rumeilan because it is an important oil resource."

The fighting indicated the collapse of a deal, negotiated by prominent Syrian opposition leader Michel Kilo, under which both sides in the area had cooperated peacefully for months.

Visiting a camp that holds 115,000 Syrian refugees in Jordan near the Syrian border, Kerry heard refugees vent their anger at the world's failure to end a war that has claimed more than 90,000 lives.

He told them Washington was considering various options, including buffer zones for their protection, but that the situation was complex and much was still under consideration.

"What are you waiting for?" a Syrian woman, who did not give her name, asked Kerry at the United Nations' Zaatari refugee camp. "At least impose a no-fly zone or an embargo."

In London, sources told Reuters that Britain had abandoned plans to arm the rebels and now believed Assad might survive in office for years.

The sources also said a peace conference to try to end the conflict might not happen until next year if at all.

"Britain is clearly not going to arm the rebels in any way, shape or form," said one source.

The reason for the shift was the largely hostile public opinion and fears that any weapons supplied could fall into the hands of Islamists.

"It will train them, give them tactical advice and intelligence, teach them command and control. But public opinion, like it or not, is against intervention," the source said.

In southern Syria, the Observatory reported heavy shelling in the Damascus countryside. There were also further shelling of the city of Homs, where fighting has raged for the past three weeks. Clashes erupted in the towns of Deraa and Quneitra in southern Syria, the Observatory said.

(Additional reporting by Arshad Mohammed in Jordan; Anfrew Osborn, Guy Faulconbridge and Paul Taylor in London,; Writing by Giles Elgood, Editing by Angus MacSwan)

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Cequent Retools Mich. Facility for Distribution | RV Business

Cequent facility in Tekonsha, Mich.

Cequent Performance Products (CPP) announced the transition of its Tekonsha, Mich., facility to a regional distribution center.

According to a press release, the location currently houses the company?s engineering and product development teams focused on automotive electrical and braking products.? The 75,000-square-foot facility will take the place of the Huntington, Ind., location and add more than 13 jobs to the area.

?Tekonsha is an ideal location to serve as our newest distribution center,? says Justin Schuhardt, director of global logistics.? ?Combined with the opening of our?Dallas, Texas, master distribution center, we are in a great position to serve customers throughout the Midwest region.?

Built in 2001, the Tekonsha facility will continue to be the center of development for automotive and braking research. It will join five other CPP North American distribution centers with its new warehousing capabilities.

Source: http://www.rvbusiness.com/2013/07/cequent-michigan-facility-to-house-distribution/

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Snow in an infant solar system: A frosty landmark for planet and comet formation

[unable to retrieve full-text content]A snow line has been imaged in a far-off infant solar system for the very first time. The snow line, located in the disc around the Sun-like star TW Hydrae, promises to tell us more about the formation of planets and comets, the factors that decide their composition, and the history of the Solar System.

Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/07/130718142726.htm

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NYSE stocks posting largest percentage decreases

NEW YORK (AP) -- A look at the 10 biggest percentage decliners on New York Stock Exchange at 1 p.m.:

Wabash National Corp. fell 6.9 percent to $10.53.

Piper Jaffray Cos fell 6.0 percent to $31.35.

Tower International Inc. fell 5.7 percent to $22.16.

Pretium Resources Inc. fell 5.3 percent to $7.57.

TRC Companies Inc. fell 5.2 percent to $8.60.

Vaalco Energy Inc. fell 4.7 percent to $6.07.

Ormat Technologies Inc. fell 4.7 percent to $24.39.

NCI Building Systems Inc. fell 4.4 percent to $14.19.

Model N Inc. fell 4.4 percent to $23.44.

Sprint Corp. fell 3.9 percent to $6.23.

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Full Sized Jet Fighter Drone Crashes Along Florida Highway Air Force Hunts for Explosive Device as Highway Closed to All Traffic

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NBC's Mitchell Spews Abortion Propaganda in Friendly Chat With Planned Parenthood President

In a softball exchange with Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards on her Wednesday 1 p.m. ET hour MSNBC show, host Andrea Mitchell recited one liberal talking point after another to denigrate pro-life legislation in states across the country: "On Friday, Texas became the 16th state to tighten regulations on abortion clinics in the past three years, effectively putting most of them out of business. This is part of a growing movement by states to restrict access to family planning and other women's health facilities." [Listen to the audio or watch the video after the jump]

Turning to Richards, Mitchell implored: "What can you or Planned Parenthood and other groups do to try to keep some of these clinics open?" Richards used the opportunity to proclaim: "Look, this is a very extreme set of bills that are going to close down dozens of health centers in Texas.... I think it's a growing theme, unfortunately, in many states where politicians are putting their own political agenda ahead of women's health care."

Mitchell followed up by ranting: "Well, we've seen action now in North Carolina. We saw what happened in the budget bill in Ohio. Also, Scott Walker, you know, in Wisconsin. So we're seeing state by state efforts through budget actions, often without hearings to roll back access to health care to women."

Speaking of the Texas legislation, which banned abortions after twenty weeks, Richards claimed: "...this bill was so extreme they couldn't get it through the regular legislature. They couldn't even get it through a special session. As you know, Senator Wendy Davis successfully filibustered that bill. So they brought the legislature back a third time simply to ram this bill through, even though it's not supported by the majority of Texans."

The assertion by Richards that Davis "successfully filibustered that bill" was untrue. Davis's filibuster failed to prevent a vote on the legislation, but a mob of rowdy abortion activists managed to delay final approval of the bill past a midnight deadline. In addition, the claim by Richards that the legislation was "not supported by the majority of Texans" flew in the face of a Texas Tribune poll that showed sixty-two percent of Texas residents support the bill.

Rather than challenge Richards on such points, Mitchell instead continued her effort to push the pro-choice agenda: "Now we should point out that there is very little support ? never has been ? for late-term abortions. It is a rarely used medical option. But this is not just about late-term abortions, this is about preventive health care and Planned Parenthood offering non-abortion services to women."

Touting the protestors who repeatedly stormed the Texas state house, Richards declared: "What we are seeing, which is very encouraging ? and I think you're showing some of the signs ? is this has enraged and engaged a whole new generation of young women and men who are absolutely not willing to go back to a time where women didn't have access to health care in America."

In response, Mitchell noted how Davis had become "a national figure overnight" after her filibuster, but fretted: "In Texas, your mother Ann Richards, I believe, was the last elected Democrat ? Democratic governor in 1990."

Richards replied:

It's been a long time. But it was interesting, Andrea, to be at the capitol and to see literally thousands of people come back to the capitol day after day after day to testify against these bills. And many people said they hadn't seen anything like this since Ann Richards was elected governor. You know, she said when she ran for office that she wanted to open up government to the people of Texas and let them in. And I think thousands of people in Texas have taken her up on that offer in the last few weeks. It's been very encouraging to see democracy in action.

Mitchell remarked: "I can only imagine what she would be saying. I could hear her voice." Richards added: "I think we did." Mitchell agreed: "Exactly."

In a discussion with fellow journalists on the July 10 edition of the program, Mitchell similarly decried pro-life legislative success: "Texas isn't the only state where Roe v. Wade is being challenged....We've seen in Ohio, John Kasich and company sneaked it in to a budget bill....Wisconsin, there's an injunction against enforcement of what the legislature there did under Scott Walker."

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?Here is a full transcript of the July 16 interview with Richards:

1:47PM ET

ANDREA MITCHELL: On Friday, Texas became the 16th state to tighten regulations on abortion clinics in the past three years, effectively putting most of them out of business. This is part of a growing movement by states to restrict access to family planning and other women's health facilities. Joining me now is Cecile Richards, president of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund. Cecile, thank you very much for being with us.

CECILE RICHARDS: Sure.

MITCHELL: The Texas vote, I know it was filibustered, but then Rick Perry and the legislature, you know, pushed it through, so there's no appeal now. This is going to happen. What can you or Planned Parenthood and other groups do to try to keep some of these clinics open?

RICHARDS: Well, thanks for asking, Andrea. Look, this is a very extreme set of bills that are going to close down dozens of health centers in Texas. We are really looking at the constitutionality, we believe many aspects of the law probably are unconstitutional. But the thing that's really terrible about this, is it is coming on the heels of Governor Perry actually shutting down the women's health program in the state of Texas, where more than 100,000 women already lost access to preventive care. I think it's a growing theme, unfortunately, in many states where politicians are putting their own political agenda ahead of women's health care.

MITCHELL: Well, we've seen action now in North Carolina. We saw what happened in the budget bill in Ohio. Also, Scott Walker, you know, in Wisconsin. So we're seeing state by state efforts through budget actions, often without hearings...

RICHARDS: Absolutely.

MITCHELL: ...to roll back access to health care to women.

RICHARDS: Right. I mean, that's what's incredible. And I mean, I just spent a lot of time in Texas ? it's my home state, of course ? where, in fact, they couldn't ? this bill was so extreme they couldn't get it through the regular legislature. They couldn't even get it through a special session. As you know, Senator Wendy Davis successfully filibustered that bill. So they brought the legislature back a third time simply to ram this bill through, even though it's not supported by the majority of Texans. And we're seeing the same thing in North Carolina, very unpopular moves by the legislature. Literally attaching anti-choice, anti-women's legislation to a motorcycle bill just in hopes of jamming it through the legislature there. But people do not support this, even in states like North Carolina and in Texas.

MITCHELL: Now we should point out that there is very little support ? never has been ? for late-term abortions. It is a rarely used medical option. But this is not just about late-term abortions, this is about preventive health care and Planned Parenthood offering non-abortion services to women.

RICHARDS: That's right. I mean, I think that, look, the rules ? the law that was just passed in Texas would literally close down dozens of women's health centers because of the ridiculous restrictions that are placed upon them and on doctors. I mean it is literally the legislature getting in between doctors and their ability to provide medical care. We're still seeing, in states where they're trying to cut women off of going to Planned Parenthood for basic family planning, cancer screening, that's ninety percent of what we do. So this is, I think, a much broader effort to take away women's access to care. What we are seeing, which is very encouraging ? and I think you're showing some of the signs ? is this has enraged and engaged a whole new generation of young women and men who are absolutely not willing to go back to a time where women didn't have access to health care in America.

MITCHELL: But that said, Wendy Davis became, you know, a national figure overnight over this. But in Texas, your mother Ann Richards, I believe, was the last elected Democrat ? Democratic governor in 1990. So there isn't-
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RICHARDS: It's been a long time. It's been a long time. But it was interesting, Andrea, to be at the capitol and to see literally thousands of people come back to the capitol day after day after day to testify against these bills. And many people said they hadn't seen anything like this since Ann Richards was elected governor. You know, she said when she ran for office that she wanted to open up government to the people of Texas and let them in. And I think thousands of people in Texas have taken her up on that offer in the last few weeks. It's been very encouraging to see democracy in action.

MITCHELL: I can only imagine what she would be saying. I could hear her voice.

RICHARDS: I think we did.

MITCHELL: Exactly. Well, Cecile Richards, it's always great to see you. Thank you very much for the update.

RICHARDS: Thanks a lot, Andrea.

MITCHELL: And we will stay on this story and we'll be right back.

Source: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/kyle-drennen/2013/07/17/nbcs-mitchell-spews-abortion-propaganda-friendly-chat-planned-parentho

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CoverGirl Talia Joy Castellano Dies At 13 - Business Insider

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After a six year battle with cancer, honorary CoverGirl Talia Joy Castellano died at 13.

Talia gained America's attention for her charismatic YouTube makeup tutorials and accumulated more than 765,000 subscribers. Her mantra: "Makeup is my wig."

Talia appeared on the Ellen DeGeneres show last September where CoverGirl surprised her with the title of honorary CoverGirl along with a makeup table, makeup, and $20,000 check.

But today the?Angels for Talia?Facebook page reads?"It is with a heavy heart that we share with all of you that Talia has earned her wings at 11:22am.?Please lift her beautiful soul, her beautiful light to heaven and please send your love and prayers to her family during this most difficult time. God speed little one, may you be free from pain and suffering, may your soul feel the light and love that you brought to so many of us on this Earth during the short time you were her with us. We will miss you more than you will ever know baby girl."

CoverGirl tweeted its condolences attached with Talia's campaign-style CoverGirl photo:

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DeGeneres reacted to the child's death as well:

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Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/covergirl-talia-joy-castellano-dies-at-13-2013-7

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New Android apps worth downloading: LibriVox Audio Books update, Control Center - iOS 7 Style, Tetris update

Catch up on the classics you've never read by skipping reading them with LibriVox, today's first app worth downloading. The free audiobook app brings you volunteer readings of classics, allowing you to listen to a huge catalog of books at no cost. If you're a closet iPhone fan, you might try Control Center ? iOS 7 Style, an app that can turn your Android user interface into something more like Apple's. And finally, we've got Tetris, which has received a big update to add social features, new graphics and music, and more.

What?s it about? Tons of free, classic books have been converted to audiobooks and are available through LibriVox, and you can listen to them all with the service's app.

What?s cool? LibriVox is a largely volunteer effort to convert books in the public domain into audiobooks, with various readers recording the books that users can then download and listen to with the LibriVox app. The catalog of book is up to around 7,000 entries, and includes features like bookmarks to save important spots in a book's playback. LibriVox's new update adds a search function that helps you find similar works by the same or other authors, and a rating system that helps you find what you want to listen to next.

Who?s it for? If you like classic works of literature but would rather have them read to you than read them, LibriVox can help.

What?s it like? Check out Amazon's Audible app for an app that lets you pay for more contemporary ebooks.

What?s it about? Make your Android device feel more like an iPhone (if that's something you want) with the help of Control Center ? iOS 7 Style.

What?s cool? Despite there being similarities and differences, superior and inferior qualities on both sides of the smartphone divide, there are people who wish their iPhones were more like Android devices ? with their various freedoms of content control, for example ? and who wish their Android devices were more like iPhones. Control Center is an app that can help the second group of people, at least in terms of user interface and functionality controls. The app lets you make adjustments to the interface of your Android device to make it look more like an iPhone based on the iOS 7 operating system. You can tweak your home screen to look like Apple's app launcher, change the kind of notifications you receive to look more like Apple's and more.

Who?s it for? If you're an Android user but an Apple fan, Control Center gives you (some of) the best of both worlds.

What?s it like? For more cool user interface tweaks, check out the Star Trek: The Next Generation-inspired LCARS UI, and the (less Trek-related but still cool) Extended Controls.

Tetris update (Free)

What?s it about? Classic puzzler Tetris has been re-released to the Google Play Store, bringing new social features to the block-dropping title

What?s cool? If you've ever played a video game, whether on your phone or otherwise, you're probably aware of Tetris. The title is a classic puzzle game that's incredibly simple, and yet devilishly challenging. Your job: guide blocks of varying sizes and shapes and drop them on the screen to interlock them together. Complete a line of blocks from one side of the screen to the other to clear it; leave gaps and the blocks pile up. Too many and you lose. Tetris just got a new release to the Google Play Store, replacing the old version with something a little newer that adds social features, so you can challenge Facebook friends, and that has fresh graphics and music as well.

Who?s it for? Fans of puzzle games shouldn't miss out on this classic example of the genre, especially if you have Facebook friends whom you'd like to take to Tetrimino school.

What?s it like? You might also check out the even more social Tetris Blitz, and popular puzzler Bejeweled 2.

Download the Appolicious Android app

Source: http://www.androidapps.com/tech/articles/13590-new-android-apps-worth-downloading-librivox-audio-books-update-control-center-ios-7-style-tetris-update

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I am going to be graduating from Veterinary medicine school in a few years, and eventually would like to start my own practice. I've been looking at the current software that's on the market to run a veterinary practice but in a lot of ways it is lacking what I consider usAbility. how would I go about finding someone to write a program for me this quality and about how much does it cost to do something like this. I am looking to run this on iPads in the practice

a good, well thought out custom iOS app could run well upwords of 10k.. obviously it's depends on what you need, etc., aswell on available capital, and if you're goal is to create a resale vet app, or just a proprietary one for your practice.

Source: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1610118&goto=newpost

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Music decreases perceived pain for kids in pediatric ER

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Medical researches have provided more evidence that music decreases children's perceived sense of pain.

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Letters: Divesting From Fossil Fuels

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Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/16/science/divesting-from-fossil-fuels.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

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Retail Unit May Hold Key for Struggling Energy Future Holdings

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Indian erotic drama B.A. Pass to screen at London Indian Film Festival

B.A. Pass star Shadab Kamal has said that he is grateful that the project has won praise on the international film festival circuit.

Following screenings at Osian's Cinefan Festival of Asian and Arab Cinema, the Montreal World Film Festival and South Asian Film Festival in Paris, the project will screen this week at the London Indian Film Festival.

Kamal told Digital Spy: "I feel proud to say that not only has our film been selected for various prestigious festivals but it also picked up awards and got critical acclaim.

"We don't have a big star cast. For a small budget, non-commercial film made on an unconventional theme in mainstream Indian cinema, it helps to earn as much credibility as possible."

Also starring Chak De India actress Shilpa Shukla, the movie's theatrical release in India has been postponed in order to get wider distribution.

"The idea was to get as many shows as possible," revealed Kamal. "It seemed like a good move to postpone the release since we would be hard-pressed to fit in enough shows with a three-hour film like Bhaag Milkha Bhaag running at the same time.

"Add to that, there were many other films releasing on the same date."

Ashanti Omkar, Indian cinema editor for Cineworld cinemas, explained why the production was selected for screening: "The London Indian Film Festival has always looked at the cutting edge of films out of the subcontinent, with at least one very audacious choice in the lineup.

"This cougar tale by Ajay Bhal is one that is pre-selling really well already at the fourth LIFF festival, which is now the largest for Indian independent cinema in Europe. This is a rare chance to see such a film on the silver screen, which gives it quite an appeal for a summer festival."

The London Indian Film Festival runs from July 18 to July 25.

B.A. Pass releases in India on August 2.

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