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Over 160 More Children Released By Armed Group In Central African Republic

By Newsroom America Staff at 9:03 am Eastern

UNICEF has announced 163 children have been released by an armed group in the Central African Republic, where thousands of other boys and girls are still serving as combatants, cooks and messengers for the country’s militant factions.

FAA Releases App Beta Test For Drone Users

2:41 am Eastern | U.S. News

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has released the beta version of a new smartphone application called "B4UFLY" for testing by up to 1,000 unmanned aircraft users.read more »

FTC Acts to Halt Vemma As Alleged Pyramid Scheme

27 Aug 16:26 | U.S. News

At the Federal Trade Commission’s request, a federal court has temporarily halted an alleged pyramid scheme, Vemma Nutrition Company, that lures college students and other young adults with the prospect of getting rich without having a traditional 9-to-5 job. read more »

Four-Day School Week Can Improve Academic Performance

28 Aug 12:22 | U.S. News

Shortening the school week to four days has a positive impact on elementary school students' academic performance in mathematics, according to researchers at Georgia State University and Montana State University.read more »

Silicon Valley Employee Arrested For Theft Of Trade Secrets

27 Aug 16:17 | SciTech

Jing Zeng 42, of San Ramon, California, has appeared in court after being arrested by the FBI on a criminal complaint alleging theft of trade secrets from a gaming company. read more »

Interrupting Sitting With Walking Breaks Improves Children's Blood Sugar

28 Aug 14:18 | U.S. News

Taking 3-minute breaks to walk in the middle of a TV marathon or other sedentary activity can improve children's blood sugar compared to continuously sitting, according to a new National Institutes of Health (NIH) study.read more »

Mortgage Rates Slide Due To Market Turbulence

27 Aug 15:31 | Business

Mortgage rates were down this week, with the benchmark 30-year fixed mortgage rate rising to 4.03 percent, according to Bankrate.com's weekly national survey. read more »

About 10 Percent Of Mothers Experienced Depression 2 Years After Hurricane Katrina, Study Shows

27 Aug 17:34 | U.S. News

About 10 percent of mothers experienced chronic, persistent depressive symptoms two years after Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast, killing more than 1,800 people, displacing hundreds of thousands and causing widespread damage estimated at more than $100 billion, according to a Georgia State University study.read more »

Ancient Crops To Be Deposited In Norway's Arctic Seed Vault For Future Generations

28 Aug 15:36 | World

As a significant step towards preserving the world’s most important ancient crops for future generations, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), together with scientists and delegations from Peru, Costa Rica and Norway have deposited potato seeds to the "safety box" in Arctic seed vault.read more »

Humans May Be Harmed By Chemicals Released During Natural Gas Mining

28 Aug 16:30 | U.S. News

Researchers with the University of Missouri and national colleagues have reviewed research on health effects associated with fracking operations and concluded these activities have potential for environmental release of a complex mixture of endocrine disrupting chemicals that could potentially harm human development.read more »

Sierra Leone Begins Countdown To Be Declared Free Of Ebola Virus Transmission

28 Aug 11:22 | World

Sierra Leone has begun its countdown to be declared free of Ebola virus transmission as the West African nation’s President described the release of the last patient treated for the disease at a treatment centre as "the beginning of the end of Ebola."read more »

National Vaccination Rates High: CDC

28 Aug 10:13 | U.S. News

Vaccine exemption levels for kindergarteners are low for most states and infant vaccination rates are high nationally, according to data from two reports published by the CDCread more »

Most American Internet Users Agree That The 'Right To Be Forgotten' Should Be A Human Right

28 Aug 09:36 | SciTech

According to new findings from an online study, 69% of online Americans agree that the 'Right to be Forgotten' should be a human right and 29% think it allows for censorshipread more »

Research Demonstrates Millions Of Plastic Particles Exist In Cosmetic Products

27 Aug 14:14 | World

Everyday cosmetic and cleaning products contain huge quantities of plastic particles, which are released to the environment and could be harmful to marine life, according to a new study.read more »

Awareness Of Memory Loss May Decline 2-3 Years Before Dementia Onset

27 Aug 12:06 | SciTech

People who will develop dementia may begin to lose awareness of their memory problems two to three years before the actual onset of the disease, according to a new study. read more »

81% Of Healthcare Organizations Compromised By Cyber-Attacks In Past 2 Years: KPMG Survey

27 Aug 10:15 | U.S. News

Eighty-one percent of health care executives say that their organizations have been compromised by at least one malware, botnet, or other cyber-attack during the past two years, and only half feel that they are adequately prepared in preventing attacks, according to the 2015 KPMG Healthcare Cybersecurity Survey.read more »

Water Being Used To Achieve Military And Political Gains In Syria

27 Aug 09:18 | World

Amid the unremitting brutality of the war in Syria and a scorching summer heat wave, there is increasing evidence that parties to the conflict are using water to achieve military and political gains, warned the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). read more »

Traffic Gridlock Sets New Records For Traveler Misery

27 Aug 08:09 | U.S. News

Just as the U.S. economy has regained nearly all of the 9 million jobs lost during the downturn, a new report produced by INRIX and the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) shows that traffic congestion has returned to pre-recession levels.read more »

Financial Advisers Most Concerned About Market Volatility And Interest Rates

26 Aug 17:09 | Business

Managing market volatility, preparing for a possibly imminent rate hike, and generating investment income in a low-return environment are the top concerns of financial advisors and their clients, according to the most recent ATOMIX survey conducted by Eaton Vance.read more »

Looking To Smartphones For Relief From Depression May Make Things Worse

26 Aug 14:25 | SciTech

Depressed people who turn to their smart phones for relief may only be making things worse, according to researchers.read more »

Europe's Response To Migrant Crisis 'Is Not Working'

26 Aug 13:20 | World

The European Union should establish a human rights-based, coherent and comprehensive migration policy which makes mobility its central asset, an expert has advocated, assuring it was the only way in which the EU can reclaim its border, effectively combat smuggling and empower migrants.read more »

Executive Assistant Fuels Lavish Lifestyle By Fleecing Hewlett Packard

26 Aug 12:34 | Business

Holli Dawn Coulman, an executive assistant to an HP Senior Vice President, has been sentenced to a custodial sentence of 21 months for embezzling nearly $1 million from Hewlett Packard. read more »

Two Plead Guilty To Forced Labor Scheme That Exploited Guatemalan Migrants

26 Aug 11:30 | U.S. News

A leader of a human trafficking ring has pleaded guilty to charges that he lured Guatemalan minors and adults into the United States on false pretenses, then used threats of physical harm to compel their labor at egg farms in Ohio. read more »

Making A Mistake Can Be Rewarding, Study Finds

26 Aug 16:23 | SciTech

A new MRI study by a group of international researchers has found that having the opportunity to learn from failure can turn it into a positive experience - if the brain has a chance to learn from its mistakes.read more »

Warning Of 'A Lost Generation' In Yemen

26 Aug 09:25 | World

Alarmed by the dramatic increase in grave violations against Yemen's children, the UN Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict has called on all parties to respect their obligations under international law to safeguard civilians from harm, including children.read more »

Atomic Energy Watchdog Needs More Than $10 million A Year To Assess Iran's Nuclear Capacity

26 Aug 08:21 | World

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has presented to its member States for approval a report outlining a $10 million programme to carry out the verification and monitoring of Iran’s nuclear-related commitments.read more »

Legacy Recordings Acquires Catalog Of Music Legend Van Morrison

26 Aug 16:19 | Entertainment

Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, has acquired the rights to the most complete discography of contemporary music legend Van Morrison ever assembled under one label imprint.read more »

Virginia Man Commits Suicide After Killing TV Crew During Live Broadcast

26 Aug 14:53 | U.S. News

A former reporter who was fired by a Virginia television station has shot and killed two of the station’s journalists during a live broadcast and then posting the video online.read more »

Home Values Slip After Nearly Four Years of Growth

25 Aug 17:07 | Business

The housing market is slowing down, with home values seeing the first negative monthly change since the market began its recovery nearly four years ago, according to the Zillow July Real Estate Market Reports.read more »

Four In Ten Americans Give President Obama Positive Ratings

25 Aug 15:13 | US Politics and Govt

Positive ratings of President Obama's overall job performance hit the four in ten mark this month (40%), not far from last month's 39% and just shy of his recent peak of 41%, seen in May. read more »

Civilians Suffering In War-Ravaged Yemen

25 Aug 13:17 | World

Life saving medicines, trauma kits and blood bank supplies are urgently needed in war-ravaged Yemen, where nearly half the country’s health facilities have shut down, leaving thousands of injured civilians with fewer and fewer places to seek emergency assistance.read more »

Young Adults Believe Hookah, E-cigs Are Safer Than Cigarettes

25 Aug 12:19 | U.S. News

A new study finds that young adults under 25, including high school grads and college students, are more likely to rate hookah and e-cigarettes as safer than cigarettes, when compared to 25 to 34-year-olds. read more »

Calm After Chaotic Scenes At Former Yugoslav Republic Of Macedonia And Greece Border

25 Aug 10:31 | World

The UN refugee agency is assisting refugees and migrants amid chaotic scenes over the weekend as thousands of people tried to cross into the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) from the Greek border.read more »

Ebola Aftermath Is 'Best Chance' To Transform Future Epidemic Response

25 Aug 09:35 | World

The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that infectious diseases have become "a much larger menace" under the unique conditions of the 21st century with its unprecedented global travel volume of nearly 100,000 flights carrying 8.6 million passengers every day.read more »

Fake Hospice Nurse Sentenced To Prison

25 Aug 08:32 | U.S. News

A Dallas woman who stole the identity of a registered nurse and used that identity to work at several Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) area hospice companies, where she saw and purportedly treated 243 hospice patients has been sent to prison.read more »

Blacks Hit Hardest By Public-Sector Job Losses During Recession, Study Finds

24 Aug 16:35 | U.S. News

A new University of Washington study found that public-sector job cuts during and after the Great Recession disproportionately impacted African-Americans, especially women, and have increased racial disparity in the public sector.read more »

Destruction Of Palmyra's ancient Temple Condemned

24 Aug 15:18 | World

Extremists "cannot silence history," the Director-General of UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Irina Bokova, declared as she condemned the destruction of Palmyra’s ancient temple of Baalshamin, in Syria, a World Heritage site.read more »

Some Single People Are Happy On Their Own, Research Finds

24 Aug 14:12 | SciTech

People who fear relationship conflicts are just as happy when they are single or in a relationship, finds new research.read more »

High Sugar Consumption Among Children Relates To Poor Family Functioning, Study Finds

24 Aug 13:07 | SciTech

The quality of general family functioning is a major determinant of healthy dietary habits, according to new research led by Queen Mary University of London. read more »

Researchers Examine Key To A Better Relationship And Sex Life For Men

24 Aug 12:19 | SciTech

If men take up more of the child-care duties, splitting them equally with their female partners, heterosexual couples have more satisfaction with their relationships and their sex lives, according to new research by Georgia State University sociologists.read more »

US Has 5 Percent Of World's Population But About A third Of Global Mass Shootings

24 Aug 09:24 | U.S. News

Despite having only about 5 percent of the world's population, the United States was the attack site for a disproportionate 31 percent of public mass shooters globally from 1966-2012, according to new research.read more »

Ceasefire Between Israel And Syria At Risk: UN

24 Aug 08:17 | World

United Nations Secretary-General ban Ki-moon said he was deeply concerned over the serious violations of the ceasefire between Israel and Syria, and called on all involved to exercise maximum restraint to prevent any further escalation in an already tense regional environment.read more »

New York Man Convicted For Role In Attempting To Develop Lethal Radiation Device

24 Aug 10:31 | U.S. News

A jury has convicted Glendon Scott Crawford, 51, of Galway, New York, after a five-day trial on all charges relating to his efforts to build a weapon of mass destruction.read more »

Operator Of Music Piracy Websites Pleads Guilty To Criminal Copyright Infringement

23 Aug 16:47 | Entertainment

A North Carolina man has pleaded guilty to reproducing and distributing without permission millions of infringing digital copies of copyrighted works, including copies of popular songs and albums before they were commercially available. read more »

Deadly Suicide Attack In Kabul

23 Aug 15:21 | World

The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has condemned "in the strongest terms" yesterday's suicide attack in Kabul that killed 12 and injured at least 88 others, including 13 children and 21 women.read more »

California Man Pleads Guilty To The Sale Of Horns From Black Rhinoceros

23 Aug 09:46 | U.S. News

Lumsden W. Quan, 47, an art dealer from San Francisco, California, has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to violate the Lacey and Endangered Species Act for knowingly selling black rhinoceros horns to an undercover agent from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS).read more »

Oklahoma State Senator Pleads Guilty To Wire Fraud And Tax Evasion

21 Aug 15:34 | US Politics and Govt

Oklahoma State Senator Ricky L. Brinkley has pleaded guilty to fraudulently obtaining over $1.2 million dollars from the Better Business Bureau and subscribing to a false tax return.read more »

Warming Climate Is Deepening California Drought Say Researchers

21 Aug 13:40 | U.S. News

A new study says that global warming has measurably worsened the ongoing California drought.read more »

Europe Hit By One Of Worst Droughts Since 2003

21 Aug 12:33 | World

Much of the European continent has been affected by severe drought in June and July 2015, one of the worst since the drought and heat wave of summer of 2003, according to the latest report by the JRC's European Drought Observatory (EDO). read more »

'Substantial' Number Of UK Hospital Staff Treat Victims Of Human Trafficking

21 Aug 11:17 | World

A "substantial" proportion of UK NHS hospital staff - around one in eight, in some places - treat the victims of people trafficking, with maternity services most likely to do so, according to new research.read more »

China Urged To Ensure Transparency In Tianjin Chemical Disaster Investigation

21 Aug 09:41 | World

The Government of China and relevant businesses in the country should ensure complete transparency in the investigation of the chemical disaster in Tianjin, including both causes and effects of the explosion, says a human rights expert.read more »

U.S. Wildfires Expected To Intensify In Coming Weeks

21 Aug 08:31 | U.S. News

The Department of Agriculture says already unprecedented wildfire in America's forests and rangelands are anticipated to intensify over the next few weeks putting more lives and property at risk.read more »

Existing-Home Sales Maintain Solid Growth In July

20 Aug 16:32 | Business

Existing-home sales steadily increased for the third consecutive month in July, while stubbornly low inventory levels and rising prices are likely to blame for sales to first-time buyers falling to their lowest share since January, according to the National Association of Realtors.read more »

Mortgage Rates Post Slight Increase

20 Aug 15:28 | Business

Mortgage rates were up modestly this week, with the benchmark 30-year fixed mortgage rate rising to 4.06 percent, according to Bankrate.com's weekly national survey.read more »

Charges Against Former Subway Frontman Jared Fogle Unveiled

20 Aug 15:22 | U.S. News

United States Attorney Josh Minkler has announced the filing of formal charges against Jared S. Fogle for distributing and receiving child pornography, and conspiring to do so, as well as repeatedly traveling to engage in commercial sex acts with underage minors. read more »

Former U.S. Government Employee Charged in Computer Hacking and Cyber Stalking Scheme

20 Aug 13:12 | U.S. News

A former locally-employed staff member of the U.S. Embassy in London has been charged with obtaining sexually explicit photographs and threatened to share the photographs unless the victims ceded to certain demands. read more »

Sumatran Rhino Declared Extinct In The Wild In Malaysia

20 Aug 11:02 | World

Leading scientists and experts in the field of rhino conservation state in a new paper that it is safe to consider the Sumatran rhinoceros extinct in the wild in Malaysia. read more »

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LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - Nebraska lawmakers have advanced a bill designed to steer the state toward long-term water sustainability.  Senators gave the proposal first-round approval on Wednesday, but say they'll make additional changes before it comes to a second vote.  The bill by Sen. Tom Carlson, of Holdrege, would expand the state's Natural Resources Commission from 16 to 27 members. Members would have to come from a variety of major water users, including surface and groundwater irrigators.  The measure would require the commission to set goals and a ranking system for water conservation projects, paid for out of a new state water sustainability fund.  Senators postponed action on an amendment that would require a basin-wide management plan within the Republican River Basin.


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Morning Call: Pick of the Papers

Ten must-read pieces from this morning's papers

Ed Balls has the rare political right to say: I told you so (Guardian)

Jonathan Freedland finds the shadow chancellor's political strength lies in his capacity to be infuriatingly right.

Scotland's slow countdown (Times)

Leading article urges careful - and sceptical - consideration of the case for Scottish independence.

A political class mired in crisis and scandal (Daily Mail)

Leading article ambitiously links Leveson inquiry to Eurozone scandal and decides our governing elite is incapable.

Nick Clegg's U-turn for the Better (Guardian)

The Deputy Prime Minister has come at least half way towards grasping the failure of austerity, says Robert Skidelsky.

At the heart of Europe's crisis is the abolition of the nation state (Telegraph)

Elegiac account of eurozone meltdown as the expression of hubristic folly of Europe's founding fathers, by Bruce Anderson.

Grammar schools educated people to lead the world. They can do so again (Independent)

Lively rehearsal of classic argument for the old, flawed but effective engines of social mobility, by Chris Blackhurst.

Ireland faces a choice between lucre and liberty (Guardian)

Harder to stomach than auserity is the realisation that a small state cannot fend for itself in a dangerous world, writes Mary Kenny.

It's hard to believe we can build a credible state after so many years of failure (Independent)

Rory Stewart finds historical reasons to be deeply sceptical about Britain's ability to fulfil its ambitions in Afghanistan.

So David Cameron lacks an ideology - who knew? (Independent)

Andrew Grice finds enthusiasm for David Cameron's leadership draining out of the Conservative party.

The fantasy of a United States of Europe is ending in tears, blood and despair (Mirror)

Extremism, neo-fascism, social decay stalk Europe. Who does Tony Parsons blame? Er, Nick Clegg, apparently.

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To stop Jeremy Corbyn, I am giving my second preference to Andy Burnham

The big question is whether Andy Burnham or Yvette Cooper will face Jeremy in the final round of this election.

Voting is now underway in the Labour leadership election. There can be no doubt that Jeremy Corbyn is the frontrunner, but the race isn't over yet.

I know from conversations across the country that many voters still haven't made up their mind.

Some are drawn to Jeremy's promises of a new Jerusalem and endless spending, but worried that these endless promises, with no credibility, will only serve to lose us the next general election.

Others are certain that a Jeremy victory is really a win for Cameron and Osborne, but don't know who is the best alternative to vote for.

I am supporting Liz Kendall and will give her my first preference. But polling data is brutally clear: the big question is whether Andy Burnham or Yvette Cooper will face Jeremy in the final round of this election.

Andy can win. He can draw together support from across the party, motivated by his history of loyalty to the Labour movement, his passionate appeal for unity in fighting the Tories, and the findings of every poll of the general public in this campaign that he is best placed candidate to win the next general election.

Yvette, in contrast, would lose to Jeremy Corbyn and lose heavily. Evidence from data collected by all the campaigns – except (apparently) Yvette's own – shows this. All publicly available polling shows the same. If Andy drops out of the race, a large part of the broad coalition he attracts will vote for Jeremy. If Yvette is knocked out, her support firmly swings behind Andy.

We will all have our views about the different candidates, but the real choice for our country is between a Labour government and the ongoing rightwing agenda of the Tories.

I am in politics to make a real difference to the lives of my constituents. We are all in the Labour movement to get behind the beliefs that unite all in our party.

In the crucial choice we are making right now, I have no doubt that a vote for Jeremy would be the wrong choice – throwing away the next election, and with it hope for the next decade.

A vote for Yvette gets the same result – her defeat by Jeremy, and Jeremy's defeat to Cameron and Osborne.

In the crucial choice between Yvette and Andy, Andy will get my second preference so we can have the best hope of keeping the fight for our party alive, and the best hope for the future of our country too.

Tom Blenkinsop is the Labour MP for Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland


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Why is everyone going mental about zero-hours contracts?

Sanity needed.

Last week’s revelations about the extent of the use of zero-hours contracts in the UK caused an almighty uproar in the national press and only a minority of commentators made anything that could be described as a measured response. The government’s reaction, that it "would examine" the issue, is the correct one. Zero-hours contracts do need to be examined and managed more effectively, but they certainly ought not to be banned, as several commentators suggested last week.

Even those commentators most hardened against the idea of zero-hours contracts did concede that there were some situations in which their use was appropriate. Indeed, it’s hard to see how some industries could operate without at least some use of zero-hours contracts. At an outdoor tourist attraction, for example, a good weather forecast could see a fivefold increase in custom, but staffing in accordance with that maximum capacity would be prohibitively expensive. However, that is not to say that there is no problem, and it is not just the government which needs to examine how these contracts are used.  Employers too, need to look at how they implement zero-hours contracts. If their use is as widespread as is claimed, then any abuse of them has the potential to have a perceptible impact on the economy as a whole.

The most serious issue is that of employers discriminating against workers who refuse hours offered by their manager. There’s been no real investigation of how widespread that practice is, but no sensible businessperson could justify such behaviour. Unless there is a real shortage of staff, the only inconvenience caused by an employee turning down hours is that of sending another text, or making another phone call to find a replacement. That infinitesimal saving in time certainly doesn’t make up for the negative impact of instilling anxiety and resentment in a business’s staff.

That impact will soon translate to an actual cost. From a purely financial perspective, increasing the use of zero-hours contracts may initially appear to, but using them inappropriately can have a real impact on the quality of a business’s customer service. Customer service representatives are the face of the company, and employees who begrudge the way they are treated by their employer are unlikely to make that face a very pretty one. A worker who is stressed or unprepared for work will not perform to the best of their ability, and that is the inevitable consequence of using a zero-hours contract where a full-time arrangement is more suitable. If managers feel that they need to pressure employees into accepting hours, then that is a fair indication that that is what is going on.

In many cases, it’s possible that the over-use of zero-hours contracts has come about as a reaction to worries about fluctuations in productivity and custom, thinning operating margins, and anxieties about staffing in response to these changes. It may even be down to a lack of skill amongst managers in scheduling staff appropriately. However, the technology that can be used to predict activity levels within a workplace, to schedule staff and to monitor productivity is now so advanced that such an unscientific and potentially damaging approach really ought to be a thing of the past.

Human error can be significant, and most managers have better things to do with their time than work out staffing rotas, but an automated approach leaves the manager free to work on improving the performance of their team, and identifying the training needs and potential of their staff. All of these processes can now be aided by software, and using such technology makes it immeasurably easier to accommodate different contract types within the organisation. This reduces anxieties about demand and capacity, and should make it less of a temptation for managers to over-use the zero-hours contract.

If last week’s furore demonstrated anything, it’s that clearer thinking is necessary when we consider an employer’s obligation towards their employees’ financial stability. An economy balanced towards the service industry will always require a high degree of flexibility. However, business leaders should not lose sight of the importance of employee engagement, and the impact that good morale can have on service quality. The argument against the over-use of zero-hours contracts is founded on business sense as much as upon ethics. The good news is that the technology exists to balance those obligations against the imperatives of fluctuating demand - government should do more to encourage its use.

Clearer thinking on the zero hours contract is needed. Photograph: Getty Images

Claire Richardson is VP at Verint

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To stop Jeremy Corbyn, I am giving my second preference to Andy Burnham

The big question is whether Andy Burnham or Yvette Cooper will face Jeremy in the final round of this election.

Voting is now underway in the Labour leadership election. There can be no doubt that Jeremy Corbyn is the frontrunner, but the race isn't over yet.

I know from conversations across the country that many voters still haven't made up their mind.

Some are drawn to Jeremy's promises of a new Jerusalem and endless spending, but worried that these endless promises, with no credibility, will only serve to lose us the next general election.

Others are certain that a Jeremy victory is really a win for Cameron and Osborne, but don't know who is the best alternative to vote for.

I am supporting Liz Kendall and will give her my first preference. But polling data is brutally clear: the big question is whether Andy Burnham or Yvette Cooper will face Jeremy in the final round of this election.

Andy can win. He can draw together support from across the party, motivated by his history of loyalty to the Labour movement, his passionate appeal for unity in fighting the Tories, and the findings of every poll of the general public in this campaign that he is best placed candidate to win the next general election.

Yvette, in contrast, would lose to Jeremy Corbyn and lose heavily. Evidence from data collected by all the campaigns – except (apparently) Yvette's own – shows this. All publicly available polling shows the same. If Andy drops out of the race, a large part of the broad coalition he attracts will vote for Jeremy. If Yvette is knocked out, her support firmly swings behind Andy.

We will all have our views about the different candidates, but the real choice for our country is between a Labour government and the ongoing rightwing agenda of the Tories.

I am in politics to make a real difference to the lives of my constituents. We are all in the Labour movement to get behind the beliefs that unite all in our party.

In the crucial choice we are making right now, I have no doubt that a vote for Jeremy would be the wrong choice – throwing away the next election, and with it hope for the next decade.

A vote for Yvette gets the same result – her defeat by Jeremy, and Jeremy's defeat to Cameron and Osborne.

In the crucial choice between Yvette and Andy, Andy will get my second preference so we can have the best hope of keeping the fight for our party alive, and the best hope for the future of our country too.

Tom Blenkinsop is the Labour MP for Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland


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Housing is primitive -- one volunteer was forced to turn a pigpen into a home away from home -- and water is scarce or infested with raw sewage.

Tarantulas, killer bees and big snakes are commonplace.

Camels, donkey carts and horses are often the most prevalent modes of transportation.

Meals are regularly cooked over open flames, and stomach upsets and diarrhea are far from rare.

A shower is a cup of cold water.

So why is it that American men and women, young and old, still relish the chance to spend two years of their life working in Third World nations?

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The Peace Corps Was officially started in March 1961 Current volunteers: 8,655 Total volunteers: More than 200,000 Have served in 139 countries. Average age: 28 Education: 90 percent of all volunteers have an undergraduate degree. Assignments: HIV/AIDS education, business development, agriculture, youth development, the environment. Countries where volunteers now serve: Africa, Latin America, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, the Caribbean, North Africa, the Middle East and Pacific islands. 2010 budget: $400 million. For more information about the Peace Corps and its mission, visit

The answers from past volunteers -- some dating back 50 years to the first groups dispatched abroad -- are visions of charity crafted in the image of what they believe is the greatest democracy in the world.

"If I can make someone's life five minutes easier, then it's worth it. I don't have to move mountains," Brigitta Brandt, 30, of Bethel said of the lessons she learned as a Peace Corps volunteer in Armenia three years ago.

"We're representing American people to the rest of the world and on the flip side we're exposing people here to places they've never been, peace-building."

Brandt is one of many volunteers from greater Danbury who have served their country in the Peace Corps over the last half-century. Since its debut, thousands of inspired Americans have flocked to communities all around the globe to build infrastructure projects with sweat, peace and hope.

Brandt said she was assigned to be a community health educator, but that was far less important than organizing a girls' soccer team, attending a native wedding or celebrating a birth.

"It's all about perspective and presence; mindful presence," Brandt said about volunteers, who are role models by virtue of their everyday interactions. "You're forced into being absolutely present every second of your day."

Sarah DeShan, 26, of Bethel, who served in Mauritania, West Africa, from 2007 to 2009, said the Peace Corps opened her eyes to the world, an experience she will never forget and hopes to repeat.

"It's certainly a challenge, and there are days you get frustrated ... but this helps you relate to other people so that you will try and understand someone else's point of view," DeShan said.

"I know I did that before, but the Peace Corps just makes you so much more aware. If you can understand, then you can communicate."

Jennifer Bailey, 35, of Danbury, said her two years in Mali, West Africa, 2001 and 2002, were a lesson in learning how to accept what in the United States is not only unacceptable, but unthinkable.

With her degree in psychology, Bailey assumed she would be assigned to some type of social service job. Instead, she found herself cleaning out dirty wells and constructing a proper outhouse.

Mali has rampant malnutrition, poverty, constant rain and humidity that at first seem unbearable.

Bailey managed without complaint a lack of running water and electricity and grainy porridge as the staple food.

But her homesickness sometimes became so acute it was worse than any physical pain -- the nearest phone service was 30 miles away and there was no Internet.

Still, she endured.

"The Peace Corps really develops your problem-solving capacity, and you gain a great respect for other cultures," Bailey said. "It's also a great stress reliever. When things get hard here, I remember that I was just fine living in a mud hut in Mali with no electricity and no refrigerator."

She even took a journey that can be boasted about by few others: a boat trip to Timbuktu.

John Leopold, Danbury Hospital wound care center nursing manager, who served in Paraguay from 1995 to 1997, boiled it all down: the Peace Corps "is a crash course in life."

In 1961, David Hopkins was a Yale University graduate with a degree in industrial administration. Like so many other Americans at the time, he was enthralled with the passion and patriotism of President John F. Kennedy, a larger than life figure who briefly attended the Canterbury School in New Milford during the early 1930s.

"It was a big thing. Everybody had heard about (the Peace Corps). It was one of the first things Kennedy did," said Hopkins, now a 70-year-old retired IBM executive who lives with his wife, Janet, in Sherman. The couple have two adult daughters and two grandchildren.

Hopkins embraced Kennedy's belief in the nobility of planting the roots of freedom by volunteering to live and work among less fortunate people all across the globe.

"Life in the Peace Corps will not be easy," Kennedy said. "... But if the life will not be easy, it will be rich and satisfying."

The promise was enough for Hopkins and many other college-educated youth of his era. He was in one of the first groups assigned to Turkey between 1962 and 1964.

And it was a "culture shock," he recalled.

"Turkey at that time was like America back in the 1900s," Hopkins said. "There were some cars and buses, but most places had no access to them. There were a lot of horses and horse carts on the city streets. Most people walked."

His assignment was to teach English, and his classes had 40 and 80 students. But like many volunteers, Hopkins said the heart of his experience was spending time with the Turkish people.

He has photographs of himself and other young men at a local tea house. He visited his first mosque in Istanbul.

"It's a remarkable country," Hopkins said.

Another early Peace Corps volunteer who taught English in Turkey was Catherine Bachrach, now 67, of Kent.

Like Hopkins, whom she later met through a Peace Corps reunion group, Bachrach caught the Peace Corps bug while she was a college student.

She earned her bachelor's degree in American history and politics at the University of California at Berkeley, and the Peace Corps seemed a fitting pre-career opportunity, she said.

Her first assignment was in a small town on the Black Sea.

"I was the first American these folks had ever seen," said Bachrach, a former program director for the New Milford Senior Center who has two grown daughters and four grandchildren.

"I remember being dropped off by a bus in this tiny town on the Black Sea coast, with all my bags and suitcases all by myself. And I was immediately surrounded by men and boys, and I looked around and thought `Oh my God, what have I gotten myself into?"'

Somehow she managed to get them to lead her to the school where she was to teach. Within no time she was able to speak enough Turkish to get where she needed to go. She and Hopkins both can still speak a bit of the language.

"It's a quick learning process when no one speaks English," Bachrach said.

In her two years of service, she stumbled into the occasional cultural misunderstanding; it was quite unusual in Turkey for a woman to go anywhere alone.

She tells a tale about her desire to take a dip in the Black Sea.

"I love to swim, but it was not appropriate for a woman to be seen in a bathing suit," she said.

One day the school principal arranged for her to go to an isolated spot for a swim. She had to wear long pants and a long shirt, however. She did it just once.

"I almost drowned (from the weight of the clothes)," Bachrach recalled with a laugh.

"We learned much more than we taught," Bachrach said. "And the lessons have lasted."

In the 1970s, political turmoil in Turkey prompted the Peace Corps to disband its program there, but both she and Hopkins have made return trips to Turkey, and they and their spouses visit Turkish restaurants.

Both couples intend to attend the Peace Corps' 50th anniversary celebrations in Washington, D.C., in September.

"Certainly, that experience has impacted the rest of my life in very positive ways," Bachrach said.

From a family committed to charitable giving, John Leopold, 42, remembers as a teenager hearing two of his uncles talk about their experiences in the Peace Corps.

It clearly planted a seed.

The Peace Corps assigned the Danbury High School graduate with a master's degree in public health and nursing to a remote village in Paraguay as a public health educator.

He and a fellow volunteer had a radio show that tied entertainment into public health lessons, but he said his lasting achievement was arranging a $25,000 grant so the women of the village could build a bakery.

Leopold said he had much to learn in the male-dominated society that had once been a dictatorship. He struggled to adjust to a loose work ethic. While building the bakery he would show up every day uncertain if anyone would come to assist him.

Some of the village men distrusted him, and people even questioned his motives.

He was aware of the assumption all Americans are wealthy, he said, and truthfully any American volunteer is likely richer than the people of Paraguay will ever be.

He was humbled by the hospitality of people who might not have enough money to buy beans for the next day's meals but would feed him whatever they had available.

He lived in a former pigpen he managed to make habitable.

He had to drill a new well when he found a dead chicken in the one on the premises. A team of oxen was his garden tractor. And stomach ailments were a constant for his first six months.

As for recent news reports about volunteers victimized on their assignments, Leopold and others say that is a risk not limited to foreign service.

On a couple of occasions, Leopold admitted he found himself in the "wrong place at the wrong time." In one neighborhood, he encountered youths who aimed a gun in his direction. He can still recall the haunting sound of their laughter when they pulled the trigger but no bullet was released.

Yet the enormity of the experience -- the highs and the lows -- reach far beyond any one moment. Leopold said what he gained most in the Peace Corps was a true understanding that little in life, or with people, is black or white.

"The Peace Corps changed the context in which I look at things," said Leopold, who lives in Brookfield with his wife, Dr. Joann Petrini, and their daughters, Teresa, 7, and Margaret, 5.

"I will argue that any experience is a good experience because you're gaining an understanding of the human experience."

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“Call of Duty” games have been dominating the world of console online shooters in recent years, but another series that built much of its devoted following on the PC is making a strong push for its share of that space.

“Battlefield 3” ($59.99, for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC) is the latest installment from Electronic Arts and Swedish developer Dice, and its expansive maps, amazing selection of vehicles and intense gunfights are sure to keep gamers logging their online hours.

Sure, it’s war, but the game makes war look as gorgeous as it possibly can with beautifully designed maps that come to life with incredible detail and lighting.

The Xbox 360 version comes on two discs — one for campaign mode and one for multiplayer — and suggests installation of an HD texture pack to bring out its full visuals. It’s well worth the storage space.

The game has a short campaign mode, but it’s clearly secondary to the online play so I’ll touch on that later.

“Battlefield 3” really shines in online multiplayer, offering rush, squad rush, squad death match, team death match and conquest modes that are engaging and fun,

The intense 24-person battles are particularly fun in some of the tighter urban maps such as Grand Bazaar in Tehran. My favorite is Operation Metro in Paris, particularly when your squad finds itself under heavy fire and has to duck into some of the nooks around the map’s subway section.

The key to surviving and scoring some kills in the smaller maps is moving fast and finding cover, but the game takes on a much different feel in expansive levels such as Operation Firestorm. Sure, you can hoof it on foot all the way to the oil refinery, but why not jump into a fighter jet or attack helicopter to save the wear and tear on those new boots?

The selection of vehicles in the game is astounding: tanks, armored personnel carriers, Humvees, amphibious assault vehicles, rigid-hulled inflatable boats and the aforementioned aircraft. Having a few mixed into a firefight can feel like sheer chaos at times.

Games in the “Battlefield” series and its “Bad Company” counterpart have always focused on teamwork, and this installment is no exception.

The class-based system gets past the typical online shooter goal of simply firing on every bad guy that comes into the cross hairs. Players can take on different roles of providing suppressing fire, handing out ammo to comrades or reviving downed squad members.

It’s nice to have a bad session in which you barely get a kill, yet still get some points for helping to secure an area or weaken an enemy before a fellow squad member gets the final kill.

The game’s launch was not without its glitches, with many game owners taking to the Internet to blog and tweet about early server issues. The Xbox 360 version, a week after its debut, was still warning about a problem with the Quick Match feature and suggested choosing servers manually. But I personally didn’t notice any problems jumping into battle on both EA’s and Dice’s online servers.

The brief campaign mode, which should take no more than six to eight hours to complete, follows a story told by Sgt. Henry Blackburn, a Marine under suspicion of treason with information on a potential terrorist attack.

It jumps right into the action, throwing Blackburn into an intense battle with members of a militant Iranian insurgency on a moving train. But then it quickly slides into a military interrogation room with him recounting the events leading up to that scene.

The rest of the campaign scenes are flashbacks of what happened before, which is disappointing because it feels like you’re simply acting out events that have already taken place.

The game also offers co-op mode, allowing a player to team up with an online partner to tackle scenes loosely based on the campaign with the goal of unlocking some additional weapons.

We’ll soon see what new bells and whistles “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3” brings to the multiplayer online shooter arena, but until then, I’ll be spending as much time as I can playing “Battlefield 3.”

Three-and-a-half stars out of four.

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Marine Cpl. Tyler Huffman received the 2012 Patriots Day Award presented by the Christopher Casey Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution at ceremonies held Saturday in Jefferson City.

Huffman, a Fulton native, was injured in Afghanistan when he was struck in the chest by an enemy sniper. His injuries left him in a wheelchair and paralyzed from the waist down. He was awarded the Purple Heart by the U.S. Marines.

The chapter also recognized the exemplary service of other people at its annual observance of the start of the American Revolutionary War. The Law Enforcement Award was given to officer Curtis Bohanan and Det. Chris Suchanek.

The Firefighters Award went to Capt. Steve Holtmeier, the Eagle Scout Award to Andrew P. Scavone and the Sea Cadet Award to Raymond Ritchey. The Missouri Society Silver Medal was presented to chapter member Charles A. Newman for his years of dedicated service to the chapter.

Capt. Tim Young of the Jefferson City Fire Department gave a speech about the history of the fire department.

Newly elected chapter officers were installed by past state President Cliff Olsen. Steve Newman became president; Dale Schmidt, vice president; Joe Coy, secretary and Earnie Mowry, treasurer.

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Rats are a problem in the gardens outside of the Louvre, despite the use of pesticides.

by Christine Slusser

The Louvre is a must-see tourist attraction for those visiting Paris, but there's a very unwelcome visitor in the gardens outside of it: rats. Cue the horror film music. (Via Getty Images)

"Experts estimate that in Paris there are approximately two rats for every Parisian. And in the Tuileries gardens next to the Louvre, the furry vermin have become so used to humans, they don't even hide." (Via France 24)

So, that's a lot of rats. How did they all get there?

It seems people are pointing their fingers towards tourists as the party responsible for the problem. The Guardian spoke with a local gardener, who said:

"The tourists throw their scraps of pizza and sandwiches all over the place." (Via The Guardian)

Although The Local reports rats in public gardens have been an issue in the past, too.

"For some tourists the rats are all part of the Parisian experience, thanks to Disney animation Ratatouille."

 The movie is about a rat in Paris who aspires to become a chef. Though that rat is a lot cuter than real rats. (Via Buena Vista Pictures / "Ratatouille")

There seems to be a slight variation in how the story is being portrayed. American outlets seem to be using the word "infestation" in its headlines. (Via Mashable, The Atlantic)

"They are having problems with a major infestation of them." (Via ABC)

But headlines from overseas were a bit more generous. While the word "infestation" may be used in those articles, the headlines say things like "rampage" and "overrun." Although we would say "plague" is a bit dramatic. (Via France 24, The Guardian, The Telegraph)

The Louvre says pesticides are used regularly, and officials have brought in outside help. The story picked up steam after a photographer took pictures of the rats.


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By Moses Okoed

THE National Agricultural Advisory Services (NAADS) started as a farmer led Agricultural service delivery system targeting the poor subsistence farmers with major focus on women, youth and people living with disabilities.

The programme was intended to increase on the effectiveness of Agricultural extension services under Plan for Modernisation of Agriculture (PMA). As we are aware that the programme also aimed at increasing food security, to improve on the nutrition and increase house hold incomes.

In reference to the studies that have been conducted by Uganda Debt Network on the Beneficiary assessment on NAADS in 2010, Review of the NAADS phase II implementation guide lines, the Needs assessment that was conducted in 2011 and the duplication of roles of local government officials in Agriculture.

These studies generated a number of good and bad things on the implementation of the NAADS programme and among some of them included;

While the roles of key LG extension officers are crucial, to farmers, there is no proper coordination of activities of the District NAADS Coordinators, the District Agricultural Officers, District Veterinary Officer, District Financial Officer and the District Commercial Officers under the production department in the Local governments.

This current structure creates redundancy of production officers who has the same qualification with the District Agricultural Officer thus this has resulted into duplication of work.

So there for, the President’s pronouncement to sack all the district NAADs coordinators, during celebrations to mark 28 years of NRM victory held in Mayuge District is a sign of sense of direction to avoid wastage of billions of tax payers’ resources on projects that have not yielded any fruit but rather benefited individuals in positions of influence.

This pronouncement on the matter should not be a surprise to the people of Uganda in the way that, remember in 2008, after releasing billions of monies to the districts for the implementation of the programme, the president again suspended the programme activities due to a number of reports of corruption by the implementers, that was exhibited in overpricing of inputs, lack of accountability measures and poor procurement process that was not transparent.

The decision by the President to restructure NAADS will improve on the Programme’s performance.

At the local government level, the District Agricultural Office is far much competent to handle and coordinate  NAADs activities very well since this department is full of redundant and yet technical staff who are under employed.

To achieve this, the Government may need to reconsider devicing mechanisms to motivate the Agricultural officers to do their work.

There is need now for the Government to put in place stringent mechanisms to ensure quality assurance in the implementation of the NAADs programme and be result oriented.

The suggestion by the President that, since the civilians have failed the NAADS programme, there is need now to involve the veterans and the UPDF perform a key role in the programme implementation, is not the right approach.

In Ministry of Agriculture, there a number of technical people who are in position to handle the tasks in NAADs rather than bringing in the army who may also create problem of proper planning and the implementation of the programme guidelines.

The Government in ensuring better implementation of the programme should open up spaces to community participation and involvement in the programme implementation.

This should start with creating a conducive environment for civil society participation through monitoring of service delivery. There is also need for the public to appreciate government’s efforts by owning the projects that have been given to them because if there is no ownership, the programme will still fail.

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At Frieze New York, the fantastically snazzy contemporary-art fair that just ended, on Randall’s Island, my senses sang as my heart sank. The architecture awed: a tent, three football fields long and cathedral-high, whose translucent whiteness, augmented with overhead bulbs, produced an ocean of shadowless light. You didn’t so much walk as swim in the perfectly paced, generously roomy spaces. The amenities wowed, from the restaurant and café food to, no kidding, the lavatories, in a cloister-like court, whose gracious appointments seemed to congratulate you on having bodily functions. And if you took the free ferry from Thirty-fifth Street, through the churning tidal waters of the East River, you will not forget the windswept kick of seeing, from a low angle, the city slip by as a congeries of giant’s toys.

That leaves the art. There was a lot of it. To go into detail would be as misleading as maintaining discriminate attention, amid the torrent of thousands of works, was impossible. So trust me: most of the art presented by the hundred and eighty conscientiously selected galleries was good. Some was very good. But good for what?

The triumph of commerce that art fairs advance and symbolize—the subject of my most recent piece in the magazine—gives me philosophical indigestion. The very wondrousness of Frieze New York’s production values made it worse. The spectacle seemed a gesture of noblesse oblige from King Mammon to the non-collector masses, or else a potlatch bonfire of profits that accrue to the Frieze folks, from facilitating intercourse between art and money. The signal drama in new art lately involves a struggle not for esteem and influence—the wonted dreams of artists—but for commercial viability. If you like a certain artist now, it’s hard not to be caught up in rooting for him or her to sell. Simply no other way to gauge, affirm, and discuss quality is in working order.

This will change. Any situation so extreme has a tightening spring of change built into it. Meanwhile, we are subject to a suffocating hegemony of assumed values, proper to an age that is Gilded, of course, and also practically neo-Victorian in its blanketing pieties about the edification and prestige to be had from art. The will of artists and their agents to please us, while pleasant in itself, fosters a vast complacency—a cloud castle of self-approval, with no foundation and only a billowing afflatus of success for success’s sake. If you’re young, you should make a point of enjoying the hell out of the mania while it lasts; it is the theatre of your future memories, nostalgia, and remorse. If you’re old, like me, and bedevilled by recalling times when developments in art mattered more keenly, though to fewer people, join me in a forbearing sigh.

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David Pearlman, who called himself Poppa Neutrino, died from heart failure, at seventy-seven, in a hospital in New Orleans on Sunday. Neutrino was a type not easily classified and almost never encountered. He was a wanderer, a philosopher of movement, a vernacular Buddhist who seemed incapable of staying still. He never lived in a house or an apartment for even a year in his life. He made Jack Kerouac, whom he knew, look as if he lived at home with his mother and borrowed her car on weekends to have adventures with his friend Neal.

Neutrino shed identities easily. When he was young he was a dedicated gambler, as his mother had been. In the late fifties, in San Francisco, he met early beatniks who got him interested in reading, and he never stopped. He started a church that he called the First Church of Fulfillment, which admitted that it didn’t know The Way. He developed a philosophy he called Triads, which involved ordering all experiences of life into three-sided engagements—friend, enemy, stranger; advance, retreat, remain still—and acting according to which reference seemed to apply. Although he didn’t much care about football, in a reverie one afternoon he conceived a football play that a former member of the coaching staff of the Jets described as being as innovative as the forward pass. He taught himself and his wife and children to play instruments and to sing, and he began a street band, the Flying Neutrinos, which continues through his daughter Ingrid Lucia, a singer in New Orleans, and his son Todd Londagin, who has a highly regarded swing band in New York.

Neutrino’s most widely recognized accomplishment, however, which made him famous, was building a raft from materials he found on the streets of New York City—from timbers and a parachute, wire and rope—a raft that he sailed, in 1999, with his wife and two friends, across the North Atlantic, the world’s most dangerous ocean. He was not the first person to cross the Atlantic on a raft; he was the second. He was the first person to cross the Atlantic on a raft made of garbage.

Lately he had been in Burlington, Vermont, building a raft to sail around the world. He left in November with three companions, but the raft broke up in a storm on Lake Champlain, and he and his crew had to be rescued. Big ideas and grand gestures mattered most to him, although he spent a lot of the last decade living quietly, often in his van, while building rafts in Mexico, in California, in Arizona, and especially in New Orleans, in case the levee broke again. I admired him because no matter what he did, there was always a wagonload of people around him telling him why it couldn’t be done and that he was probably crazy. His robustness, his optimism, and his fearlessness unsettled people. Somewhere Jung remarks that a signpost of emotional stability is the capacity to be oneself in all situations, and this remark suits Neutrino emphatically. His mind and his spirit were capacious, and his friendship steadfast. The fun I had with him is some of the biggest fun I ever had.

Wilkinson wrote about Poppa Neutrino in The New Yorker in 2005, and in the book “The Happiest Man in the World.”

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Transcript of head coach Rex Ryan's news conference Thursday afternoon at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis at the start of this year's NFL Combine workouts:

It’s neat seeing John come up here and he basically talked about the mentality and direction of our team and things. It’s funny, I realize there’s a lot of similarities between us. Obviously, our fathers were coaches in the National Football League and the fact that both our dads coached for the New York Jets at one time. We’re similar in the fact that we grew up with a great passion and being around football all our lives. We’re both about the same height. He’s super smart, and I’m super average, probably.

But really, there are a lot of similarities between us. The main thing that I think we have in common is the direction for this football team. We want to win and we want to have a team that basically earns the loyalty and support of our fans. We’re going to have that team. I believe that. I’m excited about the direction of our team. When I look at it — the mentality of the type of offense that we’re going to have, an attacking style, the same thing with our defense, our special teams, all of it — I’m excited about it and I think our fans should be excited about it as well.

With that. I know you’ve got a million questions, I’m sure Darrelle Revis and somebody else, maybe [Antonio] Cromartie at this time. But please go ahead.

On Quinton Coples, last year's No. 1 draft pick, and how he developed from this time a year ago to today...

Really, I thought he was a young man that really came on as the year went on. I thought his play started to take off a little bit. He’s certainly a guy that we’re excited about. He’s just scratching the surface. We kind of approached him the same way we did Terrell Suggs. I remember Ozzie Newsome coming to me and he says, "Rex, we’re going to put Terrell in your room." And so you take a guy, a rush-linebacker-type guy, and you put him in that defensive line room. So we did the same thing with Quinton.

I see him as a guy that can be maybe more of an edge presence than he was his first year. But having him going through that, putting him over guards, putting him over tackles, even over centers, I think is good. Because when you get over tight ends and things like that, it’s a lot easier to knock those guys back and have that kind of confidence when you face double teams. So that was kind of what we did with him. But I’m expecting big things from him. And like I said, I think he’s just now scratching the surface.

On talking with Revis after the recent trade rumors erupted...

It's funny. This thing all pops up and I thought it was interesting, as John talked about, the very first day he gets the job. And this is what I was telling Darrelle. When I called Darrelle, I’m like, "Darrelle, I mean, let’s face it, if the man hadn’t been on the job for 24 hours and now you’re going to get traded." I thought that was kind of interesting and I said it’s not accurate. Plain and simple, it’s not accurate. I told him that.

If he was going to be involved in a trade, I think he and his agent would know about it, as would the general manager and myself, I would think. So there is no validity to that trade and I don’t know where things like that get drummed up from. Maybe somebody is a big fan of a certain team and is playing fantasy football and would like to have him on their team, I’m not sure.

On what coaching the Jets would be like without Revis...

Again, you know what, I’m going to coach whoever is here. But John and everybody will be involved in that. But certainly, you know, absolutely not, we’re not going to do it. I mean I’m not going to say this player or that player. But if you’ve got Jim Brown in that trade then you’d probably look into it, you know?

On what he told Revis about the trade rumors...

Well, I provided him with the answer that I know to be true, which is that was not accurate.

On if there are any conditions under which the Jets would entertain trade talk for Revis...

I don’t know how to answer that question. I think John did a great job answering that. One thing I’ve learned in five years as head coach now, a lot of things that you think, this is what your team is going to look like and all that type of stuff. The perfect example is when I predicted that we would win the Super Bowl. We come back around and have 19 unsigned free agents, which was probably not ideal. It was probably not what I was thinking it was going to be. But again, nobody has that answer. But obviously Darrelle is a tremendous football player and we can’t say that enough. I’m glad he’s under contract for the team that I coach. I mean, obviously, he’s a tremendous player.

On how much he noticed Revis' absence after his injury in Game 3 last year...

Well it’s no shock to me. I mean you guys see it every day. You guys know how good Darrelle Revis is. I think we all see it. I think the young corner from Seattle [Richard Sherman] sees it. I mean, he’s comparing himself to the best. So he even sees it. Everybody sees it. So clearly he’s a tremendous player. You’d like to sit back and right after and injury like that occurs, you want to cry and all that stuff on the podium. But you’ve got to be like, "Hey, we’re going forward and it’s business like usual." Well, it’s not business as usual. I mean, it’s hard to replace a guy like Darrelle Revis and then Santonio Holmes on top of that. But it’s funny because everybody wants to say, well, you’re making excuses and all that. Trust me, you notice a big difference.

On decisions being made under Idzik...

Well, again you know what? I’m confident in our organization. Every decision will be in the best interest of this football team, every single decision we make. And you know what? We might not bat 1.000 on all those decisions, but I know one thing, it won’t be for lack of effort and us trying to do what’s in the best interest of this team. I know that. I see it from John. There’s no question about it.

On the Twitter "war" between Revis and Sherman for the last few days...

I will say this: Obviously, the guy is a heck of a football player. I don’t know him well enough to compare him to Darrelle Revis. But if you’re putting yourself in that company, that’s the company you want to be with that’s for sure.

On how he thinks the Jets will play in 2013...

Each year is different. I can honestly say that we’re going to get our shots, we’re going to get our swings. I did figure this out. You know the prediction world and all that stuff. I’m usually not real good on my predictions. But a prediction that I will make is like how many wins are you going to have and all that? I figured it out. I’m going to make the prediction after the season. I’ll tell you exactly how many wins we're going to have and I think that prediction will be accurate.

One thing I will say, and we all feel this, I know I feel this and I’m sure that many, many people in our organization feel the same way: We’re stepping up the plate and we’ve got a bat in our hand. We’re not going to let any strikes go by without swinging, OK? We are going to take our cuts. We may take a cut at a ball in the ground as well, but we’re definitely going to take our cuts. When we talk about being aggressive, I don’t know if we really know what that looks like. Like to me, I have that vision, "Well, you’re aggressive on defense." I don’t think we’re close to being as aggressive as we’re going to be this year in all three phases of the game. I’m looking forward to it. And how many wins? Nobody can tell you that. But I know one thing: We’re going to take our shot.

On competition at quarterback...

I think No. 1, you heard about what John talked about: the competition, bringing in competition at every position, not just the quarterback position. That is what we want to do here. So to say it’s Mark Sanchez or this quarterback or that quarterback, I think there’s going to clearly be competition at that position.

On if Sanchez has reached a plateau in his career...

I always think a young player can improve, I don’t think there’s any doubt. I think you look at Mark. What is he 25, 26 years old? In the life of a quarterback, I don’t believe that’s over the hill by any stretch.

On if he spoke with Bart Scott, Calvin Pace, Eric Smith, Jason Smith and Josh Baker before they were released this week...

I did. John and I both had conversations with all the young men we released. A lot of those guys — you  mention Bart Scott — there was a lot of guys that did a lot of tremendous things for us. The efforts of Eric Smith and Calvin Pace. Bart Scott, you’re right, I brought him to New York when I came here. He’s one of the guys that I thought that I really needed for that defense and basically get that kind of mentality and that kind passion through to the players as well.

When I came in here to New York I brought a guy in the front end, Marcus Douglas. Bart Scott at linebacker and Jim Leonard in the secondary, all three levels. Combined with the talent that we already had in place, I knew it wouldn’t be long before we would be considered an outstanding defense. I think we’ve been pretty consistent with that, might not have been as good the last year or so, but I think anybody that plays understands that this is who we are. Now we’re just going to make sure that we have the same kind of commitment to the entire football team.

On if any of the players released could return to the Jets...

It’ll be interesting to see how free agency goes. Sometimes opportunities come back around to you, so certainly we wouldn’t close the door on any of those things.

On the Bills' rebuilding with Mike Pettine as their new D-coordinator...

I think, No. 1, they have a heck of a start. They have a lot of outstanding players in the building already. I think that’s the main thing. Then, obviously, with Mike going over there to put in this style of defense I think will be interesting. I think it’s going to help them.

I'm not really worried about them as much as I’m worried about us. My focus is on this football team. As much as I care about Mike Pettine, I don’t really care about him now wearing another colored jersey, not as much. But no, I do care a great deal about Mike and things. But our focus is clearly on making our team better and we’re assuming every team is going to get better. But the team that clearly has to get better is the New York Jets.

On Tim Tebow's status with the Jets...

Well, if you look at everything, Tim is under contract to be a New York Jet, so we’ll see how things go in the offseason. But Tim is under contract.

On what he expects from WR Stephen Hill in his second pro season...

Yeah, it needs to be a lot better than year one because Stephen is a guy that has a lot of ability, his ceiling is really high. Like many guys as rookies, many receivers coming into this league as rookies, there were a lot of inconsistencies. Some weeks he was outstanding and other weeks not so much. But I expect him to improve by leaps and bounds going into year two.

When you look at it, you saw what he has, that height, that speed, those intangibles like that . But it is a process. There’s no question about it. I’m always reminded that Jerry Rice never started as a rookie. I don’t know who was coaching him, but it does show you that the greatest receiver of all time never even started as a rookie. So it is challenging. Guys really do make improvements going into year two, and I expect Stephen to do that.
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STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- New Penn State coach Tom Bradley says he is replacing Joe Paterno with "very mixed emotions."

The defensive coordinator is Penn State's first coach other than Paterno in almost half a century. He was appointed interim head coach after Penn State's board of trustees fired Paterno on Wednesday night in the wake of a child sex-abuse scandal involving former assistant Jerry Sandusky.

"We're obviously in a very unprecedented situation," a somber Bradley said Thursday morning. "I have to find a way to restore the confidence ... it's with very mixed emotions and heavy hearts that we go through this."

Bradley, nicknamed "Scrap" for his scrappy style on special teams while a player at Penn State and known for his animated machinations on the field, showed little emotion during the half-hour news conference except when talking about Paterno, major college football's winningest coach. Paterno had announced early Wednesday he would resign at the end of the season, his 46th leading Penn State, but the board fired him, anyway.

The 55-year-old Bradley said he found out he was the new coach while watching game film Wednesday night. He called Paterno about 11 p.m., but declined to say what they discussed.

"I think that's personal in nature," Bradley said.

He made clear, though, that he has great respect for the Hall of Fame coach, whose 409 victories are the most by any coach in major college football.

"Coach Paterno has meant more to me than anybody except my father," Bradley said. "... Coach Paterno will go down in history as one of the greatest men. Most of you know him as a great football coach. I've had the privilege and honor to work for him, spend time with him. He's had such a dynamic impact on so many, so many -- I'll say it again -- so many people and players' lives.

"It's with great respect that I speak of him, and I'm proud to say that I've worked for him."

In the days since Sandusky, Paterno's onetime heir apparent, was charged with sexually assaulting eight boys over a 15-year period, the scandal has claimed Penn State's storied coach, its president, its athletic director and a vice president, all of whom have been criticized heavily for failing to do more to bring the alleged abuse to prosecutors' attention.

"We all have a responsibility to take care of our children. All of us," Bradley said.

Bradley replaced Sandusky as defensive coordinator following the 1999 season, and testified before the grand jury that indicted Sandusky and two other university officials. He declined several times to answer any questions about his involvement or testimony, finally saying he had been advised not to by attorneys.

Bradley's Penn State roots go back more than three decades. He went from special teams captain to graduate assistant in 1979, and has been in Happy Valley ever since. He took over as defensive coordinator after Sandusky resigned in 1999. Bradley was Paterno's lead assistant on the field for the last 11 seasons, and considered the leading in-house candidate to replace his Hall of Fame boss.

"I am who I am, I'm not going to change," Bradley said. "I'm not going to pretend I'm somebody else."

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Police arrested former NFL defensive back Darren Sharper on Friday in Los Angeles and charged him with rape, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.

Sharper has been linked to two sexual assaults that occurred in the west Los Angeles area, police said Saturday. Investigators believe the assaults happened in October 2013 and January 2014.

Sharper, who played 14 NFL seasons at safety and was selected for five Pro Bowls, has worked as an on-camera analyst for NFL Network since 2012.

In a statement, NFL Network said "we are suspending Darren without pay until further notice, effective immediately." A spokesman for the network declined further comment saying "as matter of policy we do not comment on pending legal action."

Sharper was released on $200,000 bail late Friday night. The investigation is ongoing, police said.

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NFL considering major changes to Pro Bowl

The future of the Pro Bowl has been a front-and-center topic at the NFL Annual Meeting in Phoenix, and structural changes to the financial awards and selection of teams are on the table, a high-ranking league official said Tuesday.

The game also could be moving. The NFL official said the league will have an announcement in the coming days about future locations for the game, and it's possible it could move from Hawaii and rotate to different sites.

The source said the NFL is considering breaking up the compensation structure for the game by halves, or even by quarters, in order to ratchet up the in-game intensity. The league also is considering adding two-minute warnings to end of the first and third quarters, to produce games within the game to create tangible rewards in making every play more important. Rewards for big plays also are a possibility.

The "draft" concept -- which the NHL once used in its all-star game -- is "not a done deal," according to the source, but it's closer to being implemented than the other elements. The league is considering having captains select teams and is working on the mechanics of the proposed change, which would include the timing of the draft, the opportunity to televise the draft, uniforms, team names and rules. The league has a working group that will deal with those details later this week, after the meetings in Phoenix are over.

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The one thing that won't change, at least in the short term, is the date of the game. The league plans to keep it during the bye week between the conference championship games and the Super Bowl, citing annual ratings in the 7s since the change was made in 2010. This year's game scored a 7.1 rating and, according to the Boston Globe, drew 12.2 million viewers. While viewership was down 3 percent from the previous year, the Pro Bowl remained the most-watched all-star game of the four major sports.

The league met with the players' union at last month's NFL Scouting Combine to discuss the changes, and the parties have been cooperating with similar goals to keep the game alive and improve it in any way possible. The NFL hopes to have the changes in place for the spring meeting in May.

"There's no sacred cow, expect to make sure that whatever the group pulls together, the competition committee has a chance to review that," the source said. "We know what all the questions are. We don't have all the answers."

The other issue facing both sides is participation. The source says the union has recognized that as a problem and is leading the charge in trying to address it.

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Horace TRENERRY | The ploughed field

Australia 1899 – 1958
The ploughed field 1947
oil on canvas on cardboard
mounted on composition board
48.0 (h) x 65.5 (w) cm
Framed 68.1 (h) x 86.3 (w) x 5.1 (d) cm
signed l.l., pen and ink (illeg.) "(TRENNERY ...?)", not dated
Bequest of Dr Mildred Mocatta 1984
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The ploughed field is an expressive response to the Aldinga and McLaren Vale region south of Adelaide where Horace Trenerry lived from 1934. Having left Adelaide during the Great Depression, Trenerry lived and worked in Willunga in relative isolation and poverty until 1951. In the early 1920s he lived briefly in Sydney where he studied at the Julian Ashton Art School. During this period he painted alongside Elioth Gruner who instilled in Trenerry a love of painting outdoors and an interest in depicting the effects of light on the Australian landscape. Returning to South Australia from Sydney in the late 1920s Trenerry developed a friendship with Hans Heysen who encouraged the younger artist to travel and visit the Flinders Ranges. Trenerry engaged with the painting styles of Gruner and Heysen, yet responded to the landscape with his own instinctive and highly sensitive approach.

In The ploughed field Trenerry used a restricted palette, tightly structured composition and dynamic painterly surface typical of his work. He defined the expanse of the field with short, layered, vertical brushstrokes (depicting the crops) over long horizontal lines. Bands of pink, orange and red suggest the rich, fertile earth of the region. The trees, sky and distant buildings are represented by dabs, dots, scrapes and square strokes of paint. Trenerry often mixed oil paint with powdered paint, a technique that created the opaque and chalky effect characteristic of his work.1

1 Lou Klepac, ‘Hans Heysen, Elioth Gruner, Horace Trenerry’, in Barry Pearce (ed.), Parallel visions: works from the Australian collection, Sydney: Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2002, p. 36.


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image of Baluster Vase Chinese Qing Dynasty (artist)
Baluster Vase, Kangxi period, 1662/1722
porcelain with famille verte enamels on the biscuit
overall: 43.2 x 20.3 cm (17 x 8 in.)
Widener Collection
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From the Tour: Chinese Porcelains
Object 14 of 24

1911Gorer 1911, 77, no. 391.
1911Gorer/Blacker 1911, 1:pl. 29.
1942Works of Art from the Widener Collection. Foreword by David Finley and John Walker. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 23.
1998Bower, Virginia, Josephine Hadley Knapp, Stephen Little, and Robert Wilson Torchia. Decorative Arts, Part II: Far Eastern Ceramics and Paintings; Persian and Indian Rugs and Carpets. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1998: 155, color repro.

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