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Awards: the most deadly sport is … mountaineering to hunting and diving

Thursday, May 23rd, 2013

Mountaineering - Hiking, hunting, fishing, boating, outdoors ...

You value your life? Avoid mountaineering. With 29 deaths recorded in 2010, this sport is the most deadly effect according to the findings of the survey conducted by the Institute of Health Surveillance (VS). The public school has collected extensive data on the Internet from institutions, sports associations and media to determine what were the most deadly disciplines.

Beyond climbing, mountain sports are those with the greatest risk with a total of 99 deaths in 2010. Water sports (50 deaths) and hunting (27) completed the podium. In detail, mountaineering is the most deadly sport to hunting, skiing and scuba diving (23 people each). Among the major team sports, rugby has only had to identify a death.

Cycling deaths (130 to 140 per year) as the drownings (500 deaths per year in France every summer) have not been taken into account, most of the dead are to be deplored outside purely sports. "In 2010, 246 people died after a sport in France," said Bernard Thélot, the researcher who conducted the investigation, in an article published online in the journal Journal of Sports Traumatology. In particular we learn that fishing can be a dangerous practice: Ten people are dead indeed teasing the stud, the fault in the vicinity of power lines.

Shopping apps: the whole world as a catalog

Thursday, May 23rd, 2013

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I want! Exactly those red headphones with the white Ladybug points. I have only one problem: The listener does not sit on a Styrofoam ball in the art market branch of my confidence, but on the head of another woman on the bus that does not look like she wanted to give them. Or as if you could ask her about it when she has her. She eventually hears music. And I'm shy.

So I research online at home. I find many red objects with white dots, but the headphones I'm looking for are not there. For me this is annoying because I have wasted time. Because I know indeed what I want, but not how I can get it. And for the economy, it is annoying, because you have missed a willing customer.

Shazam is the U.S. provider of an eponymous app that recognizes music in everyday life and stores. With this service, it has Shazam managed to place three of the world's most used free apps, only Facebook and ICQ are more smartphones at home. Shazam now plans to offer a similar service for products that are seen in television shows and series. Who wants to know what a moderator bears, lets run with the app and search online for the data stored in a database to show brands.

The other way around it: The service Swirl shows iPhone users on a map where they can buy the jeans found online in their immediate environment. In the iPad version of the residential design blogs and friends of friends, showing creative in their living and working environment, selected private furniture pieces are linked directly with the online shop of the manufacturer.

So thanks to specialized apps in the future I waste no more time with dotted unsuccessful search for headphones, and the companies get my money. A win-win situation? If each person to the model, each apartment to the furniture store and each full subway is the showroom – how does that affect us?

Korea: Pyongyang seems attempted to revive the Kaesong Industrial Complex

Thursday, May 23rd, 2013

N.Korea lays preconditions to reopen Kaesong Industrial Complex ...

And all the more so that it does not seem to be the only appeal foot Pyongyang. According to a representative of the Unified Democratic Party, "the North has reportedly offered to approve the visit of entrepreneurs" South Korean on the complex. "The deal is the National Federation of Economic Cooperation in Beijing in charge of trade with South Korea" according to this politician. A response to representatives of 123 companies of the complex who want to go there to check the status of their facilities and their equipment.

Remains to be seen how far North Korea really wants to revive the Kaesong Industrial Complex and does not take a double language for reasons of internal communication, even if the economic issue is real: this enclave of capitalism ensured an influx of significant currency since the North Korean power in 2012 South Korean companies have paid 90 million dollars in wages to 53. 000 workers on the site, which received only a fraction of that sum in North Korean won and coupons.

And finally, according to some observers, this is undoubtedly China who will referee this issue. "The South Korea-China summit (note: to be held in late June) could become a barometer on the turn to take things Kaesong Industrial Complex" advance Yang Moo-jin, a professor of political science at the University of North Korean Studies in Seoul. And especially since Pyongyang has sent this week for the first time in two years a high-level envoy to China.

"It is likely that the North wants to strengthen its relations with China before the summits between China and the United States scheduled for early June and between South Korea and China to get a message to Washington through Beijing "says Kim Yong-hyunUn, a professor at Dongguk University, Department of North Korean Studies, Kim Yong-hyun.

What rankles the ex

Thursday, May 23rd, 2013

Conflict with Keane still rankles with ex-Leeds United and Forest ...

Former President Jose Maria Aznar has flatly denied the information you as irregular bonuses receiver of his party in the form of expenses, both when he was in opposition and in government. "I have not had any remuneration other than those listed in my statements of Finance. And I think no one has any other pay and do not know what exactly the problem that arises, "he said in an interview with Antena 3 on Tuesday. Also ignored the fact that Francisco Correa, ringleader of the plot Gürtel, take over the payment of part of the wedding of his daughter: "How can you say that they have received gifts from a criminal plot and criminal?". He then accused the group Prisa, publisher of El Pais, published what it called systematic as "lies". These are document-based information and evidence to the official inquiry which he referred to the former Prime Minister.

Murder of Laetitia: Tony Meilhon, “victim” of his childhood?

Wednesday, May 22nd, 2013

Through many stories, Tony Meilhon tries to show the evil of the two lovers. "Before he arrived, it was entitled to four 'chocos' for tea. Then, more than two," he recalls. His mother? She never said no to a drink and tended to have a heavy hand. "She even bought a whip," he says. Before stating: "There are multitudes of things that happened in this house It would take days to tell you everything.".

Yet Tony Meilhon still takes time. Her cat, her precious cat, disappeared overnight when he was a child. "They were beheaded and threw his head into the Loire, this is my uncle told me." At home, the situation is unsustainable. His brother made him smoke shit, and strength to hide inventory. There is no dialogue with parents, if not the violence he said. And at school, the child is very aggressive. Jocelyne decides to do place. "Once she has rebuilt her life, she told me 'tej' in the home."

From there, nothing will. The child is ten years old, and feels "like a homeless person." It is hazed. Beatings, cigarette burns … The accused wants to explain everything to the court on Wednesday, giving the impression that today, in this small courtroom, he's the victim. "This is the trial of my life. I must say everything. Should people understand," he insists. "If I had not been rotten life, I will not do that."

Two episodes bloodcurdling assistance. The first, when Tony Meilhon tells how he once put a dog in an oven. "It was a vicious dog. But okay, I have not left long in it, it was a joke," he says, before conceding that it might be "a little sadistic." Then, when he kills his mother's new dog, a poodle. "I put it in a bag and thrown into the Loire. It's disgusting but I am a spirit of vengeance. They they made their quiet life now, and in addition they had killed my cat."

At 16, Tony Meilhon officially slides into delinquency. "The normal age I think," said the accused. First of car thefts and break-of rams. Group. Then comes the first sentence: six months in prison. Another trauma, according to him. "If we had left me after a week and they offered me something else, I would have never shot like that in prison, I learned many things, I made lots of friends. " Result, just out, is already back behind bars. The sentences are linked. All this could it be avoided? Tony Meilhon seems to believe. In all, over the last thirteen years, the accused will have known that …. three years of freedom.

Laetitia case Perrais Tony Meilhon, the provocative

Wednesday, May 22nd, 2013

The break with his mother, Jocelyn, Tony back childhood when his parents divorced. The child was then only four and the arrival of a new child in the family does not age improves their reports. Tony takes a dislike to her stepfather. It multiplies violence. His mother is Exceeds him dsabus and placed in homes. This period coincides with the abandonment of his studies of painting, and the beginning of trouble.

At 16, a car theft leads behind bars. Living room Living carcral first. A year later, in dtention it violates a codtenu cope and five years in prison. The year of his 23 years, he committed three robberies in one-day to winning the small booty sixty euros rclusion six years.

When he meets Laetitia Perrais, beginning in 2011, he passed the thirties and pass nearly half of his life to the hole. It is under judicial Contrle for his last dlit dated, contempt magistrate. But after three months, the authorities have lost track. The insertion and probation services Nantes pnitentiaire awash in records that Tony Meilhon drowned in the mass. This "serious miscarriage of justice" nat a polemical unprecedented between the president of the Republic of the era, Nicolas Sarkozy, and judges.

"Dsinvolte" and "provocative", from the mouth of those who believe during the procedure, the battery has never expressed the slightest regret the gard of the victim. A year ago, in a letter addressed his cousin – who hbergeait at the facts that are reprochs – he said he was "sorry for all the problems causs" prsentait him and his "sincres more excuses," reports Le Parisien.

And if the German public debt was also too high?

Wednesday, May 22nd, 2013

National debt of the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

By establishing a comparison since 1850, 21 years before German unification, the study shows that the current level of German debt, 82% of GDP, is the highest peacetime if we exclude the 1923 marked by hyperinflation. Until the early 2000s, the highest historical Touchet by German debt in peacetime was 60% of GDP. "Record" reaches three times: twice in the empire in 1892 and 1909, and after reunification in the late 1990s.

German debt then began to grow much faster than GDP growth, thus increasing the ratio beyond its historic high. The German deficit is indeed long remained high. In 2003, Gerhard Schröder and Jacques Chirac had even agreed that the two countries are not exposed to the penalties prescribed by the Maastricht Treaty in excessive deficit. Until 2006, Germany had low growth and a high deficit. The two years of strong growth (2006 and 2007) were allowed to return to balance in 2008, but the decline in the ratio of public debt remained moderate. Especially in 2009, the collapse of GDP (- 5%) and stimulus blew debt to over 80% of GDP, a level where it is still, despite two years of growth strong in 2011 and 2012.

If this level can seem enviable to many, it seems untenable for economists author of the study. It should be noted that historically, Germany got rid of its debt when it reached such levels by unconventional means. The debt of the First World War was reduced by hyperinflation of the 1923 monetary reform nullified these claims and that of the Nazi period by a defect in it. Conducting several econometric simulations, the authors conclude that the actual path of the German public debt is "unsustainable. "In other words, it is unlikely that the German debt could decline significantly and sustainably. While the country has regained its balance of public finances, but we have seen that the impact on the debt level is low, especially as GDP growth is low (0.7% expected this year) .

This study may seem excessive in France, where public debt now exceeds 90% of GDP, but it has the merit of showing that, although in better shape, the German public finances are not the bravest of all. When we know that investors are now willing to buy this debt through sometimes negative rates, whereas when it was below its historical high, they demanded 4 or 5%, it can question the effective of a bubble on the German debt existence.

Health in Rome, endless waiting for a prosthesis Up to eighteen months for the knee

Wednesday, May 22nd, 2013

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ROME – Woe to become absorbed by arthritis that blocks the joints and it hurts so much. From shoulder hip, through the knee, according to statistics from the Higher Institute of Health Organization, more than 50 per cent of the Italian population that has exceeded 60 years old, suffering from joint pain. The first conservative approach with the use of anti-inflammatories, pain killers and a lot of physical therapy. But when the drug treatment and rehabilitation fail, you just have to resort to surgical treatment of orthopedists. The solution with the scalpel almost always decisive, but we must still suffer for so long before you get to the much-awaited prosthesis: an average of 11 months for the hip, knee and shoulder ten. These are the average waiting times in hospitals Romans. But there is no 'wonder if you go up to 18 months for knee implants when contacting specialists in the Fatebenefratelli Isola Tiberina or those of the Holy Spirit. The waiting list for a hip operation down to 17 months (always in the two hospitals), nearly six months to the CTO but came up just 30-40 days to Eugene. CITTADINANZATTIVA Program, program, progammare – says Roberto Crea, regional secretary of Cittadinanzattiva-Tribunal for Patients' Rights -. These types of interventions are largely predictable but too often are put aside to deal with emergencies. You should create the lanes well differentiated between urgent and programmable interventions (those that doctors call the election, ed) because wait a few weeks for an operation not the end of the world but suffer more than a year waiting for the shelter unacceptable. It is our hope that this regional council resumes to seriously test the situation of programmable surgery after two years of stagnation that led to these disastrous results. DEFENCE I know this problem – Angelo admits Tanese, recently general manager of ASL RmE on which depends the Holy Spirit -. For our hospital c 'historically a great demand thanks to Dr. Francis Falez which has a strong characterization of the prosthesis. We can do little to curb demand but we can do much to improve the response. I started to reorganize the orthopedics also making better use of Villa Betania (conventional structure with the local health authorities, ed) with the hope of achieving a turnaround soon. HOLD CLEARED At Cto the situation improved in recent months but does not seem to a different organization as well as for the possibility of closing ventilated passed by the county council that has marginalized patients. And 'one of our personal impression – a volunteer explains the TDM – but since the rumor of the closure c' always been a reduced demand which has reduced bookings and consequently also shortened the waiting lists. In the other hospital in the ASL RMC, the St. Eugene, programming has effectively reset the lists. We have organized the department for scheduling the hearing in order to carry out all the preparation operating outside – Lucio says Professor Alexander, chief orthopedic hospital dell'Eur -. In this way the patient who comes to us is operated within the next 30-40 days. According to the orthopedist, after the first visit, it takes 20-30 days for diagnostic tests and then comes the next day of surgery. The patient is hospitalized the night before – he explains – and was discharged after 5-6 days. If this system works because it is not possible to replicate it elsewhere? Insufficient beds and most of those are now available for almost exclusively to the urgent needs. The consequence for those who expect a programmable switching, the wait becomes increasingly long, with the risk that his illness suddenly becomes an emergency.

Juve, Carrera convicted of manslaughter twofold: ran over and killed two girls of 23 years

Wednesday, May 22nd, 2013

Gosnell verdict will force a rethinking about abortion

TURIN – Massimo Carrera, former footballer and now dell'Atalanta technical manager of the youth of Juventus, was sentenced today to Bergamo to 2 years and 6 months for double manslaughter for an accident New Year's Eve 2011 along the A4 motorway, between Dalmine and Bergamo, which killed two girls of 23 years. this morning to the process in abbreviated form. The prosecutor had asked for Monia Di Marco Carrera 3 years and 4 months. A second motorist involved, Paul Braggino, was sentenced to 2 years and 4 months (the request was for 2 years and 8 months), while the third, Paul Bertacchini, who had renounced all'abbreviato, was indicted. Chiara died in the incident Monitor lizards, the Castle of Monasterolo (Bergamo), and Patrizia Paninforni, San Giovanni Bianco (Bergamo). At 3. 30 of the New Year's Eve of 2011, the two girls were traveling on the A4 in the second lane on a Ford Ka, on which there was also a third friend, the only survivor. Their car had been buffered by a Fiat Punto driven by Paul Braggino, 41, of Camira Vicentino, then result in a state of intoxication: the point was overturned, while the Ka had stopped on the road without headlights. At that point a Mercedes Ml, led by Paolo Bergamo Bertacchini fifties, had hit the utilitarian girls. Soon after, for, had come the Mercedes R-Class Massimo Carrera, who had swept the utilitarian. In court you played a battle of expert opinions to determine whether the former football player could have avoided the terrible impact or not. According to the consultant of the prosecutor would have been avoided, according to the defense not. The judge had therefore appointed an assessor super partes, which finally established that the visibility would be sufficient to allow Carrera to see the cars stopped on the roadway.

Cameron calls on the leaders of tax havens to cooperate

Monday, May 20th, 2013

ActionAid Calls On Prime Minister To Tackle Corporate Tax Havens ...

"As you know, I made the fight against the scourge of tax evasion one of the priorities of the G8 summit that the UK will host the next months," underlined M . Cameron. "A month before this event, it is time to put our houses in order," he added. "I ask all overseas and territories of the Crown to continue their collaboration with the United Kingdom on two topics dlicats territories: the exchange of information on tax rates and laws usufruct, "he said.

The United States, Britain and Australia have announced the beginning of the month a joint campaign against the tax evasion authors with a survey of large caches from bank accounts' information leaking from tax havens. The three countries have announced that they shared a wealth of information on accounts cachs Singapore, the British Virgin Islands, Camans Islands and the Cook Islands. This information includes names dtenteurs accounts and their advisors.