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The "Clash of the Titans" reconstitute is approaching, and the unavoidable comparisons will be done to the 1981 film. A shave expelled by Warner Bros. facilities a key stage thats additionally found in the original. Perseus (Sam Worthington) and his rope of men revisit the Graeae, aka the Stygian Witches, to find out how he can better the Kraken.The 3 witches contingency share an outmost eye to concede them to see whats going on around them. Check out the shave from the new "Clash":Clash of the Titans Exclusive ClipTrailer Park Movies MySpace VideoAnd afterwards check out the strange shave (fast-forward to 2:20 mark):It seems that the strange stage has some-more amusement and of march the clockwork owl Bubo, but the new stage is grittier. "Clash of the Titans Which do you prefer? Looking brazen to the new "Clash of the Titans"?Follow&&on Twitter and Facebook and Zap2itHanh on Twitter for the ultimate movies, TV and celeb newsRelated:Second "Clash of the Titans" trailer unleashes the KrakenNew "Clash of the Titans" trailer leaps in to movement

Haiti assist bid injured by delayed U.N. reply

Tom Brown PORT-AU-PRINCE Fri Feb 26, 2010 1:13pm EST Related News Haiti preserve puncture as sleet turns camps to mudThu, Feb eighteen 2010U.N. assist arch chides agencies on Haiti reliefThu, Feb eighteen 2010Sarkozy visits Haiti, unveils vital assist packageWed, Feb seventeen 2010Tarps, toilets are priorities for quake-hit Haiti: U.N.Mon, Feb fifteen 2010One month after quake, Haitians stick on to weep deadFri, Feb twelve 2010 < 1 / 7 >

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Clutching involuntary attack rifles, truckloads of U.N. infantry patrolled the streets of Haiti"s cracked collateral on the day after the trembler strike last month, clearly preoccupied to the wretchedness around them.

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Cries for assistance from people digging for survivors in collapsed buildings were drowned out by the bark of heavy-duty engines as the infantry plowed by Port-au-Prince but interlude to stick on rescue efforts, majority less lead them.

A usual steer since they were deployed in 2004, the U.N. infantry huddled in the shade of their canopied vehicles.

There were about 9,000 uniformed U.N. peacekeepers stationed in Haiti when the upheaval struck on Jan twelve and they were the judicious "first responders" to the mess in the bankrupt Caribbean country, whose notoriously diseased executive supervision was impressed by the scale of the tragedy.

Initially, however, nothing of the peacekeepers appeared to be concerned in hands-on charitable service in what puncture healing experts report as the vicious initial 72 hours after a harmful trembler strikes.

Their reply to the abominable pang was singular to you do security and seeking for looters after the bulk 7.0 upheaval intended majority of the collateral and took what Haitian President Rene Preval says could be as majority as 300,000 lives.

There was looting in the capital, but it paled in some-more aged with the astringency of the charitable crisis.

Horribly-injured patients flooded overstretched hospitals, forcing healing staff to confirm that patients to yield and that were already as well far left to try saving.

"Doctors played God," pronounced Tyler Marshall, a maestro former Los Angeles Times match operative with an general assist organisation that helped out in a tent city erected at the tallness of the destruction on the drift of Port-au-Prince"s University Hospital, the country"s largest.

Scores of U.N. crew died in the quake, together with Hedi Annabi, head of the U.N. mission that was set up in 2004. That helps insist what majority have criticized as a glacially delayed kickoff of service operations after one of history"s misfortune healthy disasters.

But in the days and weeks that followed it mostly seemed that lessons from alternative disasters were abandoned in Haiti as fears of rioting or anarchy overshadowed concerns about removing assist out quickly.

The U.N."s tip charitable assist official, John Holmes, is between those who have chided service agencies, together with the United Nations itself, for you do as well small to assistance Haiti.

"We cannot ... wait for for for the subsequent puncture for these lessons to be learned," Holmes wrote in a trusted email initial published on the website of the biography Foreign Policy.

"There is an obligatory need to progress significantly genius on the ground, to urge coordination, vital formulation and sustenance of aid," pronounced Holmes.

Edmond Mulet, behaving head of the U.N. mission, concurred in an talk that it played a singular charitable purpose in the initial couple of days after the trembler since the operations were effectively decapitated.

"At the unequivocally commencement it was unequivocally formidable since all the domicile was utterly broken and all the care of the mission was killed," Mulet told Reuters.

"CRIMINALS AND BANDITS"

Mulet gained prominence for wielding an iron fist during a prior army as head of the U.N. mission when he led mostly Brazilian "blue helmet" infantry in a successful crackdown on Haiti"s heavily armed gangs.

And he has finished no tip about sophistry the competing needs of service operations with law enforcement, in his bid to lane down the some-more than 3,000 inmates who took value of the trembler to shun from the main prison.

"We are here additionally to yield security," he pronounced when asked about the mess of convoys of rifle-wielding U.N. infantry to poke for people trapped in the rubble of the busted capital.

"I still have to patrol, I still have to go after all these criminals and bandits that transient from the inhabitant penitentiary, the squad leaders, the criminals, the killers, the kidnappers. I cannot unequivocally confuse myself from you do that."

The service mission shifted in to higher rigging after U.S. infantry deployed in large numbers and set up a supply sequence to get food and disinfectant in to areas great out for aid.

But there were still majority bottlenecks and setbacks, mostly involving U.N.-linked food distributions hobbled by unsound organization, reserve and throng control.

Unfortunately, U.N. infantry in Haiti have over the years gained a repute for toughness and abuse some-more than for easing pang in the lowest nation in the Americas.

"The usually time I"ve seen one of these U.N. infantry burst out of the behind of a lorry was to kick up on somebody or take a shot at them," pronounced a piece of the U.S. Army"s 82nd Airborne Division, as he worked security during a new assist handout.

"These guys have since all of us in unvaried a bad repute here," he said, asking not to be identified.

Haiti"s wrecked infrastructure and bad ride links finished it formidable to get assist out and keep it flowing, but that frequency finished the incident opposite from that in alternative new disasters around the globe.

"POOREST AND MOST VULNERABLE"

"The lowest and the majority exposed people lend towards to live in the regions that are strike the majority by healthy disasters," pronounced Solomon Kuah, an puncture healing medicine formed in New York who outlayed 4 weeks in Port-au-Prince after the quake.

There are no arguable estimates for the series of survivors who died from injuries due to unsound healing supplies.

But Henriette Chamouillet, the World Health Organization"s deputy in Haiti, pronounced all from staff shortages to bureaucracy and a miss of make-up lists embroiled the smoothness of containers full of medicines from Port-au-Prince"s airfield to doctors on the ground.

Port-au-Prince sits usually 700 miles off the seashore of Miami, that is home to a large Haitian-American community, and it seemed ludicrous that so couple of the U.S. infantry rushed there spoke French or were accompanied by translators.

One retaining picture of pell-mell food distributions came when U.S. helicopters offloaded boxes of MREs (Meals Ready to Eat) at a site in the capital. Many Haitians non-stop them up usually to toss them afar in offend since no French or Creole-language instructions were enclosed with the assumingly invalid packets of dust, explaining that they indispensable to be churned with H2O as piece of their preparation.

Rajiv Shah, head of the U.S. Agency for International Development, has touted the Haiti service mission as "the largest and majority successful general poke and rescue bid ever fabricated in history."

But some-more than 6 weeks after the upheaval hit, the mission is still mostly in an puncture reply mode. The U.N."s World Food Program is tying the food rations to 55-pound (25 kg) bags of rice and the Haitian supervision estimates that a million upheaval survivors are still vital in the streets in temporary encampments with no using H2O or toilets.

Doctors are roughly finished traffic with dire injuries but reconstruction for a little 40,000 amputees and rebuilding Haiti"s health infrastructure are between long-term challenges.

"This is unequivocally a mess of Biblical proportions," pronounced Lewis Lucke, who was the USAID executive in Iraq prior to entrance to Haiti as U.S. ambassador.

U.N. and alternative officials have pronounced the tellurian reply to Haiti"s upheaval was quicker and some-more in effect than in alternative new disasters, together with the Asian tsunami that killed 226,000 people in thirteen countries in Dec 2004.

But experts contend the United Nations has a lot to sense from smaller, some-more nimble healing groups similar to International Medical Corps, or IMC, and Paris-based Medicins Sans Frontieres, along with charities some-more experienced in distributing aid, such as CARE and Catholic Relief Services.

Kuah, who concurrent service efforts for IMC, a California-based organisation that had rarely learned doctors treating patients in Haiti twenty-three hours after the trembler struck, stressed the "need for speed" when it comes to saving lives.

"When you ask yourself if there were ways you could have prevented some-more mortalities or discontinued additional mortality, with earthquakes, in particular, it"s some-more timing than anything else," pronounced Kuah.

(Additional stating by Catherine Bremer, Jackie Frank, Patricia Zengerle, Mica Rosenberg and Andrew Cawthorne; Editing by Kieran Murray)

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Haiti assist bid injured by delayed U.N. reply

Tom Brown PORT-AU-PRINCE Fri Feb 26, 2010 1:13pm EST Related News Haiti preserve puncture as sleet turns camps to mudThu, Feb eighteen 2010U.N. assist arch chides agencies on Haiti reliefThu, Feb eighteen 2010Sarkozy visits Haiti, unveils vital assist packageWed, Feb seventeen 2010Tarps, toilets are priorities for quake-hit Haiti: U.N.Mon, Feb fifteen 2010One month after quake, Haitians stick on to weep deadFri, Feb twelve 2010 < 1 / 7 >

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Clutching involuntary attack rifles, truckloads of U.N. infantry patrolled the streets of Haiti"s cracked collateral on the day after the trembler strike last month, clearly preoccupied to the wretchedness around them.

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Cries for assistance from people digging for survivors in collapsed buildings were drowned out by the bark of heavy-duty engines as the infantry plowed by Port-au-Prince but interlude to stick on rescue efforts, majority less lead them.

A usual steer since they were deployed in 2004, the U.N. infantry huddled in the shade of their canopied vehicles.

There were about 9,000 uniformed U.N. peacekeepers stationed in Haiti when the upheaval struck on Jan twelve and they were the judicious "first responders" to the mess in the bankrupt Caribbean country, whose notoriously diseased executive supervision was impressed by the scale of the tragedy.

Initially, however, nothing of the peacekeepers appeared to be concerned in hands-on charitable service in what puncture healing experts report as the vicious initial 72 hours after a harmful trembler strikes.

Their reply to the abominable pang was singular to you do security and seeking for looters after the bulk 7.0 upheaval intended majority of the collateral and took what Haitian President Rene Preval says could be as majority as 300,000 lives.

There was looting in the capital, but it paled in some-more aged with the astringency of the charitable crisis.

Horribly-injured patients flooded overstretched hospitals, forcing healing staff to confirm that patients to yield and that were already as well far left to try saving.

"Doctors played God," pronounced Tyler Marshall, a maestro former Los Angeles Times match operative with an general assist organisation that helped out in a tent city erected at the tallness of the destruction on the drift of Port-au-Prince"s University Hospital, the country"s largest.

Scores of U.N. crew died in the quake, together with Hedi Annabi, head of the U.N. mission that was set up in 2004. That helps insist what majority have criticized as a glacially delayed kickoff of service operations after one of history"s misfortune healthy disasters.

But in the days and weeks that followed it mostly seemed that lessons from alternative disasters were abandoned in Haiti as fears of rioting or anarchy overshadowed concerns about removing assist out quickly.

The U.N."s tip charitable assist official, John Holmes, is between those who have chided service agencies, together with the United Nations itself, for you do as well small to assistance Haiti.

"We cannot ... wait for for for the subsequent puncture for these lessons to be learned," Holmes wrote in a trusted email initial published on the website of the biography Foreign Policy.

"There is an obligatory need to progress significantly genius on the ground, to urge coordination, vital formulation and sustenance of aid," pronounced Holmes.

Edmond Mulet, behaving head of the U.N. mission, concurred in an talk that it played a singular charitable purpose in the initial couple of days after the trembler since the operations were effectively decapitated.

"At the unequivocally commencement it was unequivocally formidable since all the domicile was utterly broken and all the care of the mission was killed," Mulet told Reuters.

"CRIMINALS AND BANDITS"

Mulet gained prominence for wielding an iron fist during a prior army as head of the U.N. mission when he led mostly Brazilian "blue helmet" infantry in a successful crackdown on Haiti"s heavily armed gangs.

And he has finished no tip about sophistry the competing needs of service operations with law enforcement, in his bid to lane down the some-more than 3,000 inmates who took value of the trembler to shun from the main prison.

"We are here additionally to yield security," he pronounced when asked about the mess of convoys of rifle-wielding U.N. infantry to poke for people trapped in the rubble of the busted capital.

"I still have to patrol, I still have to go after all these criminals and bandits that transient from the inhabitant penitentiary, the squad leaders, the criminals, the killers, the kidnappers. I cannot unequivocally confuse myself from you do that."

The service mission shifted in to higher rigging after U.S. infantry deployed in large numbers and set up a supply sequence to get food and disinfectant in to areas great out for aid.

But there were still majority bottlenecks and setbacks, mostly involving U.N.-linked food distributions hobbled by unsound organization, reserve and throng control.

Unfortunately, U.N. infantry in Haiti have over the years gained a repute for toughness and abuse some-more than for easing pang in the lowest nation in the Americas.

"The usually time I"ve seen one of these U.N. infantry burst out of the behind of a lorry was to kick up on somebody or take a shot at them," pronounced a piece of the U.S. Army"s 82nd Airborne Division, as he worked security during a new assist handout.

"These guys have since all of us in unvaried a bad repute here," he said, asking not to be identified.

Haiti"s wrecked infrastructure and bad ride links finished it formidable to get assist out and keep it flowing, but that frequency finished the incident opposite from that in alternative new disasters around the globe.

"POOREST AND MOST VULNERABLE"

"The lowest and the majority exposed people lend towards to live in the regions that are strike the majority by healthy disasters," pronounced Solomon Kuah, an puncture healing medicine formed in New York who outlayed 4 weeks in Port-au-Prince after the quake.

There are no arguable estimates for the series of survivors who died from injuries due to unsound healing supplies.

But Henriette Chamouillet, the World Health Organization"s deputy in Haiti, pronounced all from staff shortages to bureaucracy and a miss of make-up lists embroiled the smoothness of containers full of medicines from Port-au-Prince"s airfield to doctors on the ground.

Port-au-Prince sits usually 700 miles off the seashore of Miami, that is home to a large Haitian-American community, and it seemed ludicrous that so couple of the U.S. infantry rushed there spoke French or were accompanied by translators.

One retaining picture of pell-mell food distributions came when U.S. helicopters offloaded boxes of MREs (Meals Ready to Eat) at a site in the capital. Many Haitians non-stop them up usually to toss them afar in offend since no French or Creole-language instructions were enclosed with the assumingly invalid packets of dust, explaining that they indispensable to be churned with H2O as piece of their preparation.

Rajiv Shah, head of the U.S. Agency for International Development, has touted the Haiti service mission as "the largest and majority successful general poke and rescue bid ever fabricated in history."

But some-more than 6 weeks after the upheaval hit, the mission is still mostly in an puncture reply mode. The U.N."s World Food Program is tying the food rations to 55-pound (25 kg) bags of rice and the Haitian supervision estimates that a million upheaval survivors are still vital in the streets in temporary encampments with no using H2O or toilets.

Doctors are roughly finished traffic with dire injuries but reconstruction for a little 40,000 amputees and rebuilding Haiti"s health infrastructure are between long-term challenges.

"This is unequivocally a mess of Biblical proportions," pronounced Lewis Lucke, who was the USAID executive in Iraq prior to entrance to Haiti as U.S. ambassador.

U.N. and alternative officials have pronounced the tellurian reply to Haiti"s upheaval was quicker and some-more in effect than in alternative new disasters, together with the Asian tsunami that killed 226,000 people in thirteen countries in Dec 2004.

But experts contend the United Nations has a lot to sense from smaller, some-more nimble healing groups similar to International Medical Corps, or IMC, and Paris-based Medicins Sans Frontieres, along with charities some-more experienced in distributing aid, such as CARE and Catholic Relief Services.

Kuah, who concurrent service efforts for IMC, a California-based organisation that had rarely learned doctors treating patients in Haiti twenty-three hours after the trembler struck, stressed the "need for speed" when it comes to saving lives.

"When you ask yourself if there were ways you could have prevented some-more mortalities or discontinued additional mortality, with earthquakes, in particular, it"s some-more timing than anything else," pronounced Kuah.

(Additional stating by Catherine Bremer, Jackie Frank, Patricia Zengerle, Mica Rosenberg and Andrew Cawthorne; Editing by Kieran Murray)

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Spurs jog to win Tottenham

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HAVING risen so gallantly from the remains a week ago to win opposite Hull, before crashing 5-0 in midweek to Chelsea, a exceedingly burned out Portsmouth at least done a decent diversion of it opposite Tottenham.

However, they lost their Icelandic defender Hermann Hreidarsson, who had been battling courageously as an puncture centre-back, with what seemed to be a snapped Achilles tendon. Spurs centre-half Michael Dawson, forced off early in the second half, was luckier: he harm his Achilles but did not snap it.

Pompeys manager, Avram Grant, put as certain a face on hard times as he generally does. Both sides, he said, had a integrate of chances, but Tottenham accepted theirs.

This was rather to oversimplify matters. Overall, the home side tranquil the game, nonetheless Portsmouth came close 3 times to scoring point-blank goals, usually to be thwarted by Spurs volatile keeper, Heurelho Gomes.

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A frail multiple in between the Belgian right-flanker Antony Vanden Borre and French assailant Fredric Piquionne was crowned by a lapse pass to Vanden Borre, whose shot was shut off by Gomes. That was on seventeen minutes. On 42, Brown had his shot saved by Gomes. Approaching the hour, Piquionne, some-more advanced from left side to centre, done a possibility for the enthusiastic Kanu, but the keeper shut off that.

Missing on-loan Spurs player Jamie OHara and their absolute and versatile Algerian defender Nadir Belhadj, Portsmouth hold out until the 27th minute. Then Gareth Bale, an generous overlapping left- behind yesterday, crossed from the left, and Peter Crouch headed past David James. Subsequently, Tottenham twice strike the woodwork, once with a prolonged shot by the autocratic Tom Huddlestone and afterwards by Crouch, who followed up to fire from close range but true at James.

The second idea came on 41 minutes. Huddlestone and the passionate David Bentley set up full-back Kyle Walker, creation a splendid debut. His cranky was mishit by the in all glorious author Luka Modric but Niko Kranjcar back-heeled the round in to the net.

Ten mins later, Hreidarsson went down with nobody nearby him. He was carried off on a bracket with an oxygen facade on his face. As, late in the second half, was Pompey surrogate Danny Webber. James additionally went off in the last minutes. Reshuffling the pack, Portsmouth withdrew Vanden Borre to his some-more familiar on all sides of right-back. The Greek general midfielder Angelos Basinas was used in a really low ancillary position.

Spurs manager, Harry Redknapp, felt the diversion used in the second half, but James eight mins prior to his depart saved a header from Sebastien Bassong after a Bentley corner. In the eight mins of blocking time, Crouch longed for abysmally when the round came to him all on his own in front of goal.

Redknapp believes that dual of his key enemy could be ready for the FA Cup semi- last opposite the same opponents. Jermain Defoe will be fit, I know, while I wouldnt write Aaron Lennon off.

If this game, as he said, was a bit similar to a use compare in the second half, maybe this was as well for a Portsmouth group fast a run of continuous misfortune.

Tottenham Hotspur: Gomes 7, Bale 7, Bassong 6, Dawson 6 (Kaboul 62min), Walker 7, Bentley 7, Huddlestone 7, Modric 7, Kranjcar 6 (Assou-Ekotto 66min), Crouch 6, Gudjohnsen 6 (Pavlyuchenko 79min)

Portsmouth: James 7 (Ashdown 89min), Hreidarsson 6 (Webber 51min, 6), Finnan 6, Vanden Borre 7, Mokoena 6, Mullins 6, Brown 7, Hughes 6, Basinas 6 (Owusu-Abeyie 84min), Piquionne 7, Kanu 6

THE FIGHT FOR FOURTH PLACE

TOTTENHAM 58pts Apr 3 Sunderland (a) Apr fourteen Arsenal (h) Apr seventeen Chelsea (h) Apr twenty-four Man Utd (a) May 1 Bolton (h) May 5 Man City (a) May 9 Burnley (a)

Form guide: LWWWWW Odds to finish fourth: 6-5

MAN CITY 53pts Tomorrow Wigan (h) Apr 3 Burnley (a) Apr eleven Birmingham (h) Apr seventeen Man Utd (h) Apr twenty-four Arsenal (a) May 1 Aston Villa (h) May 5 Tottenham (h) May 9 West Ham (a)

Form guide: DDWDWL Odds to finish fourth: 2-1

LIVERPOOL 51pts Today Sunderland (h) Apr 4 Birmingham (a) Apr eleven Fulham (h) Apr nineteen West Ham (h) Apr twenty-four Burnley (a) May 1 Chelsea (h) May 9 Hull (a)

Form guide: LDWLWL Odds to finish fourth: 3-1

Quartet hopes package will clear Middle East talks

Arshad Mohammed and Conor Sweeney MOSCOW Fri Mar 19, 2010 4:23pm EDT Related News Blair sees package to transparent Mideast talksFri, Mar nineteen 2010Timeline: Middle East assent negotiators meetFri, Mar nineteen 2010 Related Video Quartet meets among Jerusalem clashes Fri, Mar nineteen 2010

A Palestinian girl throws a mill towards Israeli limit troops during clashes in the West Bank city of Hebron, Mar 19, 2010.

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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Two members of the general party of Middle East mediators referred to on Friday that stalled surreptitious assent talks in in between Israel and the Palestinians might be unblocked in entrance days.

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Speaking after a assembly in Moscow of the organisation -- comprising the United States, European Union, United Nations and Russia -- party attach� Tony Blair told Reuters he hoped for a package of measures to get the talks started.

"I goal really most that in the subsequent couple of days we will have a package that gives people the clarity that, yes, notwithstanding all the difficulties of the past couple of days, it is value carrying vicinity talks and afterwards those heading to approach negotiations," he said.

Blair declined to give sum of the package of measures, saying: "That will turn transparent as the days unfold."

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in Moscow for the party meeting, additionally referred to progress. She pronounced Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had given a "useful and productive" reply to her concerns on the allotment issue during a write review on Thursday. She did not give details.

The party called for approach negotiations in in between Israel and the Palestinians with the target of producing an agreement inside of twenty-four months to finish Israeli function and solve an eccentric Palestinian state.

The ultimate barrier to the assent talks came 10 days ago when Israel announced, during a revisit by U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, that it would set up 1,600 new housing units in a piece of Jerusalem that it prisoner in 1967 and annexed unilaterally.

The party called on Israel and the Palestinians to equivocate "provocative actions and inflammatory rhetoric" and told Israel to freeze all allotment building, idle outposts erected given Mar 2001 and hindrance demolitions in East Jerusalem.

"We are assured that this was all listened in Israel and that they have rightly understood," Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, who hosted the meeting, told reporters.

GAZA STRIKE

The Palestinians welcomed the quartet"s declaration.

"It is a really critical statement. The matter is in full assent with the Palestinian and the Arab position," pronounced Nabil Abu Rdainah, an help to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. "It is of critical significance that Israel abides by this matter so that the assent routine can resume."

The Israeli supervision declined to comment.

The party did not contend how it could safeguard the calls, that have left shelved in the past, would be respected. It betrothed usually to "closely guard developments in Jerusalem and to keep underneath care one more stairs that might be required".

Hours prior to the party met, Israeli aircraft struck at slightest 6 targets in the Gaza Strip in reply to space station glow from the Hamas-ruled domain the prior day, that killed a Thai workman in Israel.

The quartet"s matter cursed the space station glow and called for an "immediate finish to assault and terror".

But it added: "The party is deeply endangered by the stability decrease in Gaza, together with the charitable and human rights incident of the municipal population, and stresses the coercion of a fortitude to the Gaza crisis."

Stone-throwing Palestinians clashed with Israeli infantry in a couple of towns in the West Bank. Palestinian medics pronounced eight people were bleeding by troops who dismissed rip gas and rubber bullets. One Israeli infantryman was wounded, the troops said.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon pronounced he would go to Gaza on Sunday to see the incident for himself. The EU was represented in Moscow by unfamiliar process arch Catherine Ashton.

Netanyahu"s orator pronounced the Israeli budding apportion had due "mutual confidence-building measures by Israel and the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank" to Clinton, but did not elaborate.

The Palestinians contend they will not come in surreptitious assent talks unless Israel bits the new allotment plans.

The party was shaped in 2002 in Spain to support in mediating an finish to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Its achievements so far have been meager, heading a little analysts to boot it as an costly bar for diplomats.

Moscow had hoped to classify a full-scale general discussion on the Middle East this year but the miss of swell on assent talks forced it to solve for the party meeting.

(Additional stating by Mohammed Assadi in Ramallah, Writing by Michael Stott and Arshad Mohammed; Additional stating by Conor Humphries; Editing by Diana Abdallah)

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Victor Chandler Pick up a couple of tips from the aristocrat of the bookiesProfiles People

If bookmaking is apropos a less charming industry, Victor Chandler is you do his most appropriate to calibrate the balance. How most complicated bosses would host an speak over a diversion of poker? Many of Chandlers rivals will contend that they dont even bet, or show a noted hostility to speak about it. Its roughly a point of honour with them.

Chandler is different. Oh hes wakeful that, in the gambling business, the most improved to take bets than it is to place them yourself. But the actuality that he gets such stark instruct from gambling creates him feel similar to "one of us" to punters.

This gives him a challenging selling value and has authorised him to mangle one of advertisings phonetic manners that management team should never crop up in ads pumping their own product. Chandler has finished usually that: the commercials underline great sporting events from the last 50 years with Chandler extrinsic in to the throng with the assistance of a small special goods wizardry. He turns to the camera with a meaningful grin prior to the requisite rough voice-over explains that Victor Chandler has been the punters prime bookie for over 50 years.

"It was my selling directors idea, usually to infer we"d been around for a lot of time," says Chandler, who feigns medium annoyance prior to explaining that an additional set of ads is due to be filmed in the subsequent couple of weeks. "I think the subsequent array will be utterly great as well, though I wouldnt know what we"re you do compartment I get there."

Playing gin rummy with someone similar to Chandler creates me a shade nervous. Its usually a "fun" game. Hes pledging a concession to my nominated gift (the DEC Haiti appeal) if I win. But that doesnt stop it feeling similar to I"m on foot in to the lions den. Still, I solve down after the early hands go my way, and we begin to speak business.

Just how is it going, post-recession: "We are saying a couple of immature shoots from the UK, with people entrance behind a bit. Theres a lot of small stakes commercial operation online with people staying at home some-more and the European commercial operation and the Asian businesses have never been better."

Ireland, though, stays mired in gloom. "Turnovers down scarcely 50 per cent from the high scarcely dual and a half years ago, but the series of bets is up. Theres usually no income in Ireland. Its destroyed. The series of bets is improved but the commercial operation is smashed. We"ve got no big players. Everyone seems to have been damaged."

Big players are where the Essex-born Chandler finished his name. He revels in his pretension of "The Gentlemans Bookmaker" and his repute for pointy suits and crook thinking. The Gibraltar-based association is eminent for the "high rollers" business, an operation that will not begin at receiving five- and even six-figure bets from a unequivocally disdainful clientèle. But, as a result, rumours perennially do the rounds that Chandlers is looking a customer after receiving a big strike from one or an additional of them. Chandler is indifferent by this: "They [the high rollers] are still a big piece of the business. They have a big difference. Its the thickk cream on the topping on the cake. Its the jam. Its a specialised business. We"ve got a hermetic room we have make use of for it with coded entry. Theres usually 10 people authorised in there. Every high drum has an comment manager. I take a big seductiveness in it," he says.

But isnt piece of the problem, I say, pciking up an additional palm and call Chandler to ask the play for a stand in shuffle, that high rollers are improved at punting, they know more, have entrance to sources of report denied to us small mortals? Not so, says Chandler. "The swings are most bigger. The risk is there. But they wouldnt be there if they consistently won. There are a small people for whom twenty grand is small shift and thats the sort of people we see after."

The difficulties, says Chandler, come when the high rollers begin operative with professionals, that singular multiply that can and do have a consistent, and substantial, profit: "Professional punters can get hold of their accounts. Thats the dangerous thing. We have a lot of systems in place for the not as big players. With the high rollers, the feel for the chairman and their comment some-more than anything."

And when that comment is handed to a pro? Chandler wouldnt contend unequivocally much. He simply gives a cool smile: "We have a small chat. Their comment managers are regularly on initial name terms. It unequivocally frequency happens though." How do they understanding with a customer affronted by this: "Diplomatically. We take them out for lunch."

One worry that the credit break has brought is that most of these people have been sitting on their income rather than betting: "What we did see was a outrageous drop-off when the predicament hit. It wasnt people who had lost their income so much, nonetheless a small had. It was, I think, that people were disturbed about what could happen. There was all the fright with the banks. No one unequivocally knew that their income was protected since no one unequivocally knew who was in trouble. Its a marketplace that is usually usually entrance back. I"m anticipating the World Cup will move some-more back."

We"re coming the gin rummy finish game. The forced "blind" gamble that has to be finished each palm has right away reached a poignant commission of the chips that are on the table. While we"ve been talking, Chandlers smoke-stack has progressively grown, whilst cave has shrunk. He puts a big gamble in and I feel, with an ace, that I"ve no preference but to go all in. Of course, he has me beat. And theres an additional of those smiles as he collects the chips prior to charity to have the concession anyway. Hes obviously enjoying one of his singular trips behind to Britain, nonetheless when it comes to business, his eyes are on Europe and generally the East.

"Macau is at the peak, the overtaken Las Vegas for turnover now. An unusual place ..." Chandler has websites directed at the Chinese and they spasmodic get sealed down. But he says: "I think if the Chinese Government longed for to close us down they"d have finished it by now. We have to have make use of opposite urls each right away and again, since they have a inform once a year, but I think the a reserve valve. Thats because Macau is there. While they"re gambling they"re not you do anything else. They"re not organising antithesis parties."

Europe as well is growing, and Chandlers commercial operation is progressively going bona fide as EU members liberalise regulations. As for Britain, Chandler says the destiny is all online. He sole his betting shops (bar one) multiform years ago to Coral and is blissful he did: "I see some-more and some-more betting shops are apropos unviable at the moment. More and some-more people are going online. Long tenure we wouldnt instruct to be concerned in betting shops."

Which leaves Chandlers commercial operation at the racetrack. Hes not optimistic: "At Chepstow we once took 3 bets in a day. Where we are, Newmarket, Cheltenham, Ascot, we do great business, but the not as big tracks..."

He blames betting exchanges, and says he still thinks permitting people to take bets from others over the internet but a looseness should be illegal. "You could get locked up for you do that in a pub. I dont see the disproportion with the internet." However, and right away he is smiling again, he adds: "Really, I instruct I had thought of it myself. Thats the law of the matter."

The CV: Victor Chandler

* Born in 1951, he took carry out of Victor Chandler from his father in 1974. The bookie was founded by his grandfather, William, in 1946.

* Moved commercial operation to Gibraltar in 1998, followed by Ladbrokes and Stan James. Relocation seen as obliged for Gordon Brown abolishing gambling avocation in 2001.

* Set up bureau in South Africa forward of this years football World Cup, creation him initial to come in the market.

* Lives in Sotogrande, where he runs a timber plantation and stables with a fibre of twenty-six horses and 32 hectares of land.

Gene is related to lung cancer growth in never-smokers one third have gene variant

In the Mar twenty-two on line issue of The Lancet Oncology, the researchers reported that about thirty percent of patients who never smoked and who grown lung cancer had the same odd variant, or allele, residing in a gene well well known as GPC5. The investigate was co-led by scientists at the Mayo Clinic campus in Minnesota, Harvard University, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), and MD Anderson Cancer Center. Researchers found in laboratory studies that this allele leads to severely marked down GPC5 expression, compared to normal lung tissue. The anticipating suggests that the gene has an vicious growth suppressor-like duty and that deficient duty can foster lung cancer development.

This is the initial gene that has been found that is privately compared with lung cancer in people who have never smoked, says the studylead investigator, Ping Yang, M.D., Ph.D., Mayo Clinic genetic epidemiologist.

Whatmore, the commentary indicate GPC5 might be a vicious gene in lung cancer growth and genetic variations of this gene might significantly minister to increasing risk of lung cancer, she says. This is unequivocally exciting.

The investigate teams scanned and analyzed the genomes of 2,272 participants who have never smoked, scarcely 900 of whom were lung cancer patients. It took researchers twelve years to brand and enroll these investigate participants.

It has been unequivocally tough to do this investigate since never smokers have been mingled with smokers in past studies, and what customarily pops up are genes associated to nicotine dependence, Dr. Yang says.

Findings from this investigate regard pristine lung cancer that is not caused by smoking, and it gives us a little smashing new avenues to explore.

Little is well well known about the GPC5 gene, only that it can be over-expressed in mixed sclerosis, and that alterations in the genome where GPC5 is located are a usual eventuality in a far-reaching accumulation of human tumors. It might be that GPC5 binds opposite purposes depending on the tissue sort during assorted disease growth and progression, Dr. Yang says.

A never smoker is tangible as a chairman who has smoked fewer than 100 cigarettes in his or her lifetime, and that describes fifteen percent of men and 53 percent of women who rise lung cancer -- accounting for twenty-five percent of all lung cancers worldwide, according to Dr. Yang. In the Western countries, in in in between 10 and fifteen percent of lung cancers start in in between never smokers, but in Asian countries, thirty to 40 percent of lung cancers are never smokers, she says. Our guess all along is that this is a graphic disease, and that is because we undertook this study, Dr. Yang says.

The investigate took dual years and concerned 4 steps. In the initial step, conducted at Mayo Clinic, a genome-wide organisation investigate (GWAS) was achieved on 377 never smokers with lung cancer, suited with 377 participants but lung cancer, the carry out population. This was the initial GWAS ever conducted only in in between never smokers, and it concerned scanning the complete genome of each participant, seeking for differences in in between 300,000 markers or supposed single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). The indicate looks at all -- inside and outward genes, coding and noncoding regions, Dr. Yang says. They found 44 hits -- hinting 44 areas on the genome that were almost opposite in in in between the lung cancer patients and full of health carry out population.

Then, to rigorously countenance their commentary in alternative populations, researchers launched theatre 2. That concerned utilizing interpretation from dual some-more GWAS scans in eccentric populations -- 328 never smoker lung cancer patients and 407 controls at MD Anderson Cancer Center, and 92 never smoker lung cancer patients and 161 controls at Harvard University. From this, the poke was narrowed to only dual hits. Both of these hits were diagonally opposite to each alternative on the same gene, that the researchers afterwards identified as a various of GPC5.

In the third theatre of the study, the researchers used a opposite process to perform genotyping from the process used in stages 1 and 2 to see at the disproportion in in in between 91 never smoker lung cancer patients and 439 controls at UCLA. We reliable the variant-lung cancer organisation again, Dr. Yang says.

The last theatre of the investigate concerned bargain the duty of the gene. We had to assimilate either these hits unequivocally represented the organic aspect of the gene, so we tested countenance turn of GPC5 and found it was significantly reduced, Dr. Yang says. They found that the GPC5 transcription turn was duplicate reduce in adenocarcinoma compared to normal lung tissue. Interestingly, this marked down twin countenance turn was not found in lung carcinoid tumors, Dr. Yang says.

Then the researchers looked to see if this marked down countenance led to growth development, that it did in laboratory culture. If rebate of countenance of this gene leads to growth of lung cancer, it suggests that this gene is routinely a growth suppressor, Dr. Yang says. We hold it helps carry out the cell proliferation and division, but we need to infer the duty in animal models.

They distributed that about one-third of never smoker lung cancer patients in this investigate had the same movement of the underperforming GPC5 gene. We suppose that this is an vicious cancer trigger in these patients, and that something else is going on in the superfluous two-thirds of never smokers, she says.

We don"t know what that is, but we right away have 42 alternative hits to explore, Dr. Yang says.

The investigate was saved by the National Institutes of Health and the Mayo Foundation. The authors spoken no conflicts of interest.

Patients with Irritable Bowel Syndrome not some-more expected to rise polyps colon cancer



Ann Arbor, Mich. -- Patients with irked bowel set of symptoms are at no larger risk of carrying polyps, colon cancer or inflammatory bowel diseases than full of health people undergoing colonoscopies, according to new investigate published in the American Journal of Gastroenterology.

"Patients and doctors get shaken about the symptoms of irked bowel set of symptoms (IBS)," says William D. Chey, M.D., highbrow of Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan Medical School. "They think the symptoms paint something some-more sinister."

"This investigate should encourage doctors and patients that standard IBS symptoms are not indicators of a some-more critical disease," he adds.

Chey was the lead writer on the study, the largest impending analysis of the formula of colonoscopies in patients with irked bowel syndrome.

IBS symptoms embody memorable episodes of intestinal suffering or cramping in tie with changed bowel habits. The condition affects 10 to twenty percent of the U.S. race and is some-more usual between women than men. Many of those cheerless never find treatment.

IBS patients mostly bear colonoscopies since physicians are quite endangered about blank colorectal cancer or inflammatory bowel diseases similar to ulcerative colitis or Crohn"s disease, Chey says. Roughly a entertain of all colonoscopies achieved in the U.S. are for IBS-related symptoms.

This investigate shows that it is nonessential to sequence colonoscopies for IBS patients, unless they show alternative shocking symptoms similar to unexplained weight loss or anemia, draining from the GI tract, or have a family story of colon cancer, inflammatory bowel disease or celiac disease, says Chey, who additionally is executive of U-M"s Gastrointestinal Physiology Laboratory and the Michigan Bowel Control Program.

"Lay people and doctors use too much colonoscopies, that are really costly procedures, in patients with standard IBS symptoms and no warning features. Of course, patients over the age of 50 years or who have warning facilities should bear colonoscopy to shade for polyps and colon cancer." Chey says.

Chey"s investigate additionally showed that a small commission of IBS patients comparison than 35 (2.5%) had an surprising disease called little colitis. Microscopic colitis can cover-up as IBS in patients with disease and is critical to diagnose since it is treated with colour otherwise than IBS, he says.

March is colorectal cancer recognition month. Not counting skin cancers, colorectal cancer is the third majority usual cancer found in men and women in this country. The risk of a chairman carrying colorectal cancer in their lifetime is about 1 in 19.

More report about colorectal cancer can be found at http://www.cancer.med.umich.edu/cancertreat/gastro/colon_info.shtml.

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Spain busts ring indicted of infecting thirteen mln PCs

Jim Finkle BOSTON Tue Mar 2, 2010 6:33pm EST Related News Spain busts hackers for infecting 13 million PCsTue, Mar 2 2010

BOSTON (Reuters) - Spanish police have arrested three men accused of masterminding one of the biggest computer crimes to date -- infecting more than 13 million PCs with a virus that stole credit card numbers and other data.

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The men were suspected of running the Mariposa botnet, named after the Spanish word for butterfly, Spain"s Civil Guard said on Tuesday. A press conference to give more details is scheduled for Wednesday.

Mariposa had infected machines in 190 countries in homes, government agencies, schools, more than half of the world"s 1,000 largest companies and at least 40 big financial institutions, according to two Internet security firms that helped Spanish officials crack the ring.

"It was so nasty, we thought "We have to turn this off. We have to cut off the head,"" said Chris Davis, CEO of Defense Intelligence Inc, which discovered the virus last year.

The security firms -- Defense Intelligence Inc. of Canada and Panda Security S.L. of Spain -- did not say how much money the hackers had stolen from their victims before the ring was shut down on December 23. Security experts said the cost of removing malicious program from 13 million machines could run into tens of millions of dollars.

Mariposa was programed to secretly take control of infected machines, recruiting them as "slaves" in an army known as a "botnet." It would steal login credentials and record every key stroke on an infected computer and send the data to a "command and control center," where the ringleaders stored it.

"Basically they were going after anything that would make them money," Davis said.

Mariposa initially spread by exploiting a vulnerability in Microsoft Corp"s Internet Explorer Web browser. It also contaminated machines by infecting USB memory sticks and by sending out tainted links using Microsoft"s MSN instant messaging software, he said.

A Microsoft spokeswoman said the company did not immediately have any comment.

The suspected ringleader, nicknamed "Netkairo" and "hamlet1917," was arrested last month, as were two alleged partners, "Ostiator" and "Johnyloleante," according to Panda Security.

Panda Security Senior Research Advisor Pedro Bustamante said that one of the three was caught with 800,000 personal credentials when Spanish police arrested him.

In addition to collecting data, the three men rented out millions of enslaved machines to other hackers, according to Bustamante.

The Mariposa botnet is one of many such networks, the bulk of which are controlled by syndicates that authorities believe are based in eastern Europe, southeast Asia, China and Latin America. While authorities sometimes succeed in shutting them down, they rarely catch the criminals behind the networks.

"Mariposa"s the biggest ever to be shut down, but this is only the tip of the iceberg. These things come up constantly," said Mark Rasch, former head of the U.S. Department of Justice computer crimes unit.

He said he suspects there were more than three people behind Mariposa, and that any ringleaders who were not arrested could soon put the network back online.

(Reporting by Jim Finkle, additional reporting by Madrid newsroom. Editing by Robert MacMillan)

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Trump takes the mount in bid for namesake casinos

Emily Chasan CAMDEN, New Jersey Thu Feb 25, 2010 6:35pm EST Stocks & &

CAMDEN, New Jersey (Reuters) - Celebrity real estate developer Donald Trump, optimistic about a casino comeback, took the stand in U.S. bankruptcy court on Thursday to fight for control of the three Atlantic City hotel-casinos bearing his name.

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In just over an hour of testimony at a New Jersey courthouse, Trump said he believed the Trump Entertainment Resorts (TRMPQ.PK) casinos could reach new heights and that the Atlantic City casino market would revive as the broader economy recovers, despite increasing competition.

"I want to see this company succeed," Trump told the court. "I think it has a great chance of succeeding, and that is very important to me because it has my name on it."

Trump, appearing calm and relaxed in a black suit and bright blue tie, made jabs at rival bidder Carl Icahn, portraying his opponent as a vulture who would not invest the necessary dollars in the future of the casinos and has a mixed track record of guiding companies through bankruptcy.

Trump said his plan for the casinos would rehabilitate them and allow them to grow, but also said two of the casinos could eventually be sold if it does not work out.

Shares of the company rose 41 percent in the over-the-counter market after his testimony.

Trump and his daughter Ivanka were both in court on Thursday, having teamed with the company"s bondholders to push a plan to invest $225 million in a reorganized Trump Entertainment by selling stock and paying down some of the company"s $485 million secured debt.

That debt is held by Texas banker and high-stakes poker player Andy Beal and billionaire Icahn, who have proposed their own competing reorganization plan for the casinos.

For Trump, the deal would give the him up to 10 percent of the company and a way back to the business he walked away from a year ago, days before Trump Entertainment Resorts, in February of last year, made its third filing for bankruptcy.

Ivanka Trump would also play a larger role in the future of the casinos, having negotiated much of the current deal with the bondholders herself. Ivanka sat a few rows back in the courtroom on Thursday, nodding or shaking her head as her father testified about the deal.

In his testimony, Trump described his long history with Atlantic City, how he gave up his spot on the company"s board last year, and an earlier unfinished deal he had made with Beal before they were adversaries.

In the earlier deal, Beal and Trump had planned to each invest $50 million in the company and put a new $500 million mortgage on the properties, in a plan that would have left bondholders with little recovery.

"I would have been running it and it would have been a little bit like the old days when I was running it like a private company," Trump testified, saying he was ready to spend more time in Atlantic City and that he would have even tried to move his reality show "The Apprentice" to Atlantic City.

But late last year that deal fell apart as Trump switched sides and began working with bondholders, led by distressed investment fund Avenue Capital.

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Trump said he expects the bondholders and Avenue Capital to pump money into the properties "to make them first-class casinos," and allow them to grow. While the Taj Mahal has recently been rehabilitated, Trump said he expects a determination would be made about whether it was worth spending money on the Plaza and Marina or if they should be sold.

"I believe the investors are coming in with a very large pot of money... and they"re going to spend it," Trump said.

"Carl spends nothing -- if Carl spent three dollars I"d be shocked," Trump said in a dig at his rival.

Icahn is a latecomer to the case. He purchased a majority of the bank debt for 92.5 percent of face value from Beal Bank late last year, disrupting negotiations for a consensual plan.

"I didn"t understand why Andy did that," Trump said about Beal"s sale of the debt to Icahn at a discount. Trump also said there was a "personal matter" that led to the collapse of his deal with Beal.

Beal and Icahn have said the bondholder plan risks starving the company of cash if the battered Atlantic City gaming market does not recover.

Trump, however, poses a potential branding problem for Icahn. According to Trump, the current licensing agreement to use his brand on the casinos has terminated and Beal and Icahn do not have a right to use his name without his consent. He said on Thursday that his brand, which is also used on neckties and housing complexes, has recently been valued at $3 billion.

Icahn and Beal have argued in court papers that they can keep the brand.

The case is In re: TCI 2 Holdings, LLC, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, District of New Jersey, No. 09-13654

(Reporting by Emily Chasan; Editing by Tim Dobbyn and Matthew Lewis)

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